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Flood Watch 4, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 8, 202629 counties in Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this flood watch at Jun 8, 2026, 4:05 AM EDT for 29 counties in Georgia. It took effect at Jun 8, 2026, 8:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 13 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 8, 2026, 4:05 AM EDT (08:05 UTC)
In effect from: Jun 8, 2026, 8:00 AM EDT
Expired: Jun 8, 2026, 9:00 PM EDT
In force: 13 hr
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Flood severity: None

All 29 counties

Bartow County, GA, Carroll County, GA, Catoosa County, GA, Chattooga County, GA, Cherokee County, GA, Clayton County, GA, Cobb County, GA, Coweta County, GA, Dade County, GA, Dawson County, GA, DeKalb County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Fannin County, GA, Fayette County, GA, Floyd County, GA, Forsyth County, GA, Fulton County, GA, Gilmer County, GA, Gordon County, GA, Gwinnett County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Henry County, GA, Murray County, GA, Paulding County, GA, Pickens County, GA, Polk County, GA, Rockdale County, GA, Walker County, GA, Whitfield County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 221 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 526 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 760 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 105 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 115 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 2.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flood watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Atlanta, GA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flood watch went out at Jun 8, 1:27 AM EDT, 2 hours 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 1:27 AM EDT, 2 hours 38 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 8, 2:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Douglas	24 min
Jun 8, 2:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Catoosa	34 min
Jun 8, 2:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Cobb	29 min
Jun 8, 2:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Douglas	24 min
Jun 8, 3:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Whitfield	25 min
Jun 8, 3:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Lumpkin	37 min
Jun 8, 3:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Cobb	36 min
Jun 8, 3:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Fannin	36 min

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.