1 flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Sep 3, 9:43 AM EST, 4 hours 32 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1043 AM EDT MON SEP 3 2001 UPDATE...CURRENT SFC ANALYSIS INDICATES TRUE SFC FRONT ACROSS NC INTO SC ALONG LIFTED INDEX AND DEWPOINT GRADIENT. IN ADDITION...ELONGATED SFC LOW ACROSS NORTHERN LA INTO N MS WITH PSEUDO CONVERGENT BOUNDARY INTO N AL TOWARD CSG AND MCN IN CENTRAL GA. THIS SHOWS UP WELL IN LATEST SFC ANALYSIS OF LIFTED INDEX AND THETA-E FIELDS. GRADIENT OF THESE FIELDS IS RIGHT WHERE SLIGHTLY LOWER PRESSURES ARE. THIS BOUNDARY IS LIKELY BEING INDUCED BY RAIN COOL AIR TO THE NORTH AND SLIGHTLY HIGHER DEWPOINTS TO THE SOUTH. THIS IS WHERE AN AREA OF INCREASING SHOWERS ARE FORMING TO THE SW OF ATL. WITH BOUNDARY TO THE SOUTH OF ATL/AHN LINE AND E/SE WINDS AT SFC...EXPECT THIS BOUNDARY TO MOVE LITTLE. THEREFORE...WILL CUT MAXES BY ONE CAT N OF BOUNDARY FOR AFTERNOON UPDATE...AND CALL FOR OCCASIONAL SHOWERS THIS AFTERNOON. FFC SOUNDING SHOWS LITTLE INSTABILITY SO WILL REMOVE THUNDER IN NORTH...WITH BEST CHANCES SOUTH OF BOUNDARY IN CENTRAL GA. OTHERWISE...GOING FCST ON TRACK WITH BENEFICIAL STEADY RAIN ACROSS CWA NEXT 24 HOURS. SOME RISES CAN BE EXPECTED ON STREAMS AND RIVERS...BUT LITTLE THREAT FOR FLOODING. MAIN RAINS TO THIS POINT HAVE BEEN IN FAR NW AS ADVERTISED. .ATL... GA...NONE. NOEL OUR DETAILED COUNTY FORECASTS ARE AVAILABLE AT FOUS52 KFFC. OUR AREA FORECAST FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA CITIES IS AVAILABLE AT FLUS42 KFFC.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
The Sumter county 911 center reported that several streets in Americus were flooded in low lying areas, including Georgia Highway 27 and Georgia Highway 129.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Georgia in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Georgia, September 2001
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5266204.