Georgia, 2002

Flood in Georgia, September 27, 2002

September 27, 2002 · NWS FFC · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Property damage
None recorded
Crop damage
None recorded
Events
1

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.

What forecasters said that day

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 26, 9:40 PM EST, 2 hours 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 26, 9:40 PM EST, 2 hours 50 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1040 PM EDT THU SEP 26 2002

ISIDORE CENTERED IN MISSISSIPPI LATE THURSDAY EVENING. STRONG
SOUTHEAST WINDS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS SYSTEM HAVE PULLED MOIST
AND MUCH WARMER AIR ACROSS GEORGIA. ONLY A SMALL AREA IN NORTHEAST
GEORGIA IS STILL IN THE COOL AIRMASS THAT COVERED MUCH OF THE STATE
WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND EARLY THURSDAY. NOT LOOKING FOR MUCH OF A DROP
IN TEMPERATURES OVERNIGHT WITH SUCH WARM AIR ADVECTION AND TURBULENT
MIXING.

SHOWERS ARE LIKELY TO PERSIST OVERNIGHT...BUT THUNDERSTORMS APPEAR
TO BE ONLY A REMOTE POSSIBILITY. WILL DROP MENTION OF THUNDERSTORMS
FOR THE REST OF THE NIGHT AND WILL LOWER POPS JUST A TAD.

.ATL...
GA...NONE.

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Event by event

1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flood, Barrow

When
September 27, 12:30 AM EST
Where
Barrow County, Winder
Reported by
NEWSPAPER
Coordinates
33.993, -83.713 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

The Gwinnett Daily Post newspaper of Lawrenceville reported that significant flooding occurred to two offices, one housing the Gwinnett Daily Post Winder bureau and the other an Automation Packaging plant. The Gwinnett Daily Post suffered the most damage with standing water up to one foot deep in part of the building. A concrete slab, five inches thick, was floating in the water and 2,300 sections of paper and advertisements were soaked. Mud and other debris was also reported in the two buildings. The water was the result of runoff from a neighboring construction site and overnight heavy rain, associated with the remnants of Tropical Storm Isidore.

What these are

Flood
Flooding that develops more slowly than a flash flood: rivers leaving their banks, or water standing over land for an extended time.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

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Sources

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: 5316717.