Flood in Georgia, August 8, 2005

Name: Flood in Georgia, August 8, 2005
Start: 2005-08-08T11:45
End: 2005-08-08T18:00
Location: Georgia

August 8, 2005 · NWS GSP · 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 Greenville-Spartanburg, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 8, 8:55 AM EST, 2 hours 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 8, 8:55 AM EST, 2 hours 50 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
955 AM EDT MON AUG 8 2005

.SHORT TERM (REST OF TODAY)...
CLOSED 700 MB LOW LOCATED OVER AL THIS MORNING. MOIST GULF INFLOW
FUELING CONVECTION IN UPSLOPE FAVORED AREAS OF SO0UTHERN BLUE
RIDGE ESCARPMENT. MODEL DATA SUGGESTS UPSLOPE FLOW WILL WEAKEN
AFTER 18Z TODAY...BUT DEEP MOISTURE LINGERS INTO LATE TONIGHT...AND
OMEGA INTO TUE. KEPT HIGH POPS AND HEAVY RAINFALL RUNNING INTO MID
AFTERNOON...THEN DECREASED POPS SLIGHTLY LATE TODAY AS SUPPORT FOR
WIDESPREAD HEAVY RAIN DIMINSHES. WITH UPSLOPE RAINS FAVORED MOST
OF DAY...CONVECTIVE CHACNES BETTER WITH AFTERNOON HEATING...AND
RUNOFF TO CONTINUE LATE TODAY...WILL LEAVE FLOOD WATCH UP UNTIL
EXPIRATION AT 22Z. VISIBLE SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWS EDGE OF BKN
CLOUDS ALONG I-77...AND WITH SUNSHINE TO E...WILL RAISE
TEMPERATURES THERE. UPDATED DEW POINTS FROM ADJUSTED 06Z MAV AND
WINDS FROM 12Z RUC.

&&

.PREVIOUS DISCUSSION...
(ISSUED 341 AM EDT MON AUG 8 2005)

SHORT TERM (TODAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY)...
TROPICAL AIR MASS WITH DEEP ELY TO SELY FLOW TO REMAIN OVER THE
AREA. WITH UPPER LOW AND DIV CONTINUING AS WELL...EXPECT CONDITIONS
TO BE VERY SIMILAR TO SUNDAY. WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND SCT
THUNDERSTORMS WEST...NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND SCT STORMS EAST. FLOOD
WATCH APPEARS WELL PLACED IN AREA WHERE AN ADDITIONAL 1-2 INCHES OF
RAINFALL EXPECTED. CANNOT RULE OUT ISOLATED RUNOFF PROBLEMS
ELSEWHERE THOUGH. SHOWERS TAPER OFF AFTER MIDNIGHT AND REMAIN SCT
TUE MORNING. ATMOS A LITTLE LESS MOIST AND FLOW MORE SLY TUE...BUT
BETTER INSTABILITY. LIKELY AFT POP LOOKS GOOD ALL AREAS. ATMOS
CONTINUES TO DRY WED WITH WLY FLOW DEVELOPING. HOWEVER INSTABILITY
WILL BE EVEN HIGHER. CHC AFT POP IN ORDER.

WELL BELOW NORMAL TEMPS AGAIN TODAY WITH WARMING TREND TUE AND WED.
TEMPS APPROACHING...BUT STILL BELOW...NORMAL WED.

LONG TERM (WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY)...
ATMOS RETURNS TO A MORE NORMAL SUMMERTIME PATTERN IN THE LONG RANGE.
SCATTERED TO ISOLATED DIURNAL CONVECTION WITH TEMPS ABOVE NORMAL.
ONLY SOME MINOR TWEAKS MADE TO GOING FCST WED NITE AND THU.

AVIATION...
MVFR CEILINGS AND VIS SHOULD CONTINUE FOR THE REST OF THE PREDAWN.
DURING AND SHORTLY AFTER SUNRISE...IFR CEILING COULD TEMPO
DEVELOP...THEN RETURNING TO MVFR. NAM INDICATES THAT UPPER SUPPORT
WILL IMPROVE AFTER 12Z...WITH BETTER ISENTROPIC AND UPSLOPE LIFT.
WILL FORECAST A NEARLY CONTINUOUS DAYTIME CHC FOR TERMINAL SH AND
AFTERNOON TS. WEDGING HIGH PRESSURE WILL RESULT IN ENE WIND 5-10KT
THROUGH THE TAF PERIOD...KAVL DIRECTION WILL FAVOR A LIGHT SOUTH
WIND.

&&

.GSP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
GA...FLOOD WATCH FOR GAZ010-017-018-026-028 UNTIL 7 PM MONDAY.
NC...FLOOD WATCH FOR NCZ053-059-062>067 UNTIL 7 PM MONDAY.
SC...FLOOD WATCH FOR SCZ001>007-010 UNTIL 7 PM MONDAY.
&&

SHORT TERM...JAT

Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 8, 5:00 AM EST, 6 hours 45 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
600 AM EDT MON AUG 8 2005

GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-
SCZ001>014-019-091000-
RABUN-HABERSHAM-STEPHENS-FRANKLIN-HART-ELBERT-AVERY-CALDWELL-
ALEXANDER-IREDELL-DAVIE-MADISON-YANCEY-MITCHELL-SWAIN-HAYWOOD-
BUNCOMBE-MCDOWELL-BURKE-CATAWBA-ROWAN-GRAHAM-NORTHERN JACKSON-
MACON-SOUTHERN JACKSON-TRANSYLVANIA-HENDERSON-POLK-RUTHERFORD-
CLEVELAND-LINCOLN-GASTON-MECKLENBURG-CABARRUS-UNION NC-
OCONEE MOUNTAINS-PICKENS MOUNTAINS-GREENVILLE MOUNTAINS-
GREATER OCONEE-GREATER PICKENS-GREATER GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG-
CHEROKEE-YORK-ANDERSON-ABBEVILLE-LAURENS-UNION SC-CHESTER-
GREENWOOD-
600 AM EDT MON AUG 8 2005

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...
MUCH OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

NUMEROUS TO WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL
CONTINUE TODAY AND TONIGHT. HEAVY RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE ACROSS
PORTIONS OF THE AREA. A FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED. PLEASE SEE
CAEFFAGSP FOR ADDITIONAL DETAILS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

SCATTERED AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR EACH DAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME.

RWH

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 8, 9:18 AM EST, 2 hours 27 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
1018 AM EDT MON AUG 08 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0240 PM     TSTM WND DMG     HARRIS                  35.24N 81.87W
08/07/2005                   RUTHERFORD         NC   POST OFFICE

            POSTAL CARRIER REPORTS CANOPY AWNING BLOWN OFF HOUSE AND
            MANY SMALL LIMBS DOWN IN ROAD.

&&

HG

The radar

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Event by event

1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flood, Habersham

When: August 8, 11:45 AM EST to 6:00 PM EST
Where: Habersham forecast zone
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 31.767, -83.267

Heavy rain redeveloped across the county during the late morning and afternoon of the 8th, which caused flooding to redevelop in many of the same locations that flooded the previous afternoon. In addition, flooding developed on highway 115. Habersham Mills Rd was closed indefinitely in Clarkesville, where a section of the shoulder collapsed. A house was completely srrounded by water and briefly flooded in Demorest, while Crestview Rd was washed out in Clarkesville.

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

Every storm in Georgia in 2005 Every state in 2005 This day in weather history Warnings in Georgia, August 2005

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: 5472735.