1 lightning, 1 heavy rain, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 2 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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 Feb 23, 7:15 PM EST, 2 hours 15 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 715 PM EST WED FEB 23 2005 .SHORT TERM...NEARLY STATIONARY FRONT NOW ACROSS FAR SOUTH GEORGIA ...BUT SHOULD COME BACK NORTH INTO THE SOUTH PORTION OF THE FORECAST AREA OVERNIGHT. LIGHTNING CURRENTLY AS FAR NORTH AS THE MS/TN BORDER WELL INTO THE MORE STABLE SURFACE AIR. EXPECT FAR SOUTH AREA TO SEE SOME SURFACE BASED TRW...WITH ISOLATED ELEVATED TRW POSSIBLE OVER THE NORTH BASED ON FORECAST SHOWALTER INDEX. AS THE LOW MOVES ACROSS OVERNIGHT...RAIN SHOULD DIMINISH ON THURSDAY. BOTH NAM AND GFS HAVE COME INTO FAIRLY GOOD AGREEMENT ON THE BULK OF THE PRECIP OCCURRING OVERNIGHT. MODELS DIVERGE THURSDAY NIGHT AS GFS KEEPS BULK OF THE MOISTURE SUPPRESSED TO THE SOUTH...WHILE NAM BRINGS IN ANOTHER SLUG OF MOISTURE IN THURSDAY NIGHT...ALBEIT WITH NOT MUCH IN THE WAY OF DYNAMICS. HAVE LEANED TOWARD THE NAM SOLUTION THURSDAY NIGHT. AREA DRIES OUT FRIDAY. ALTHOUGH THE NORTH PORTION OF THE FORECAST AREA SHOULD BE WEDGED THURSDAY...ALL GUIDANCE POINTS TO TEMPERATURES NOT QUITE AS COOL AS CURRENTLY FORECAST. HAVE WARMED THEM UP SOME...BUT STILL GOING BELOW GUIDANCE OVER THE NORTH. HAVE STAYED CLOSE TO GUIDANCE THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY. .LONG TERM...WEAK UPPER LEVEL RIDGE OVER THE AREA SATURDAY SHOULD KEEP DRY CONDITIONS. HOWEVER AS SOUTHWEST LOW GRADUALLY WORKS ITS WAY EASTWARD...FLOW BECOMES MORE SOUTHWESTERLY. MOISTURE SHOULD RETURN NORTH SUNDAY NIGHT INTO MONDAY. BY TUESDAY WE ARE INTO NORTHWESTERLY FLOW WHICH SHOULD KEEP DRY AND COOL CONDITIONS OVER THE AREA TOWARD THE END OF THE PERIOD. && .HYDROLOGY...APPEARS BEST QPF WILL BE OVER CENTRAL GEORGIA WITH AMOUNTS OVER THE NORTH LESS THAN 1 INCH. THIS SHOULD NOT LEAD TO ANY ADDITIONAL FLOODING DESPITE RATHER SATURATED CONDITIONS. && .AVIATION... AREA OF RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS THE AREA AND LOWER CEILINGS AS AIR IS SATURATED. MVFR CEILINGS AS RAIN AREA ARRIVES SHOULD LOWER TO IFR AFTER MIDNIGHT. VISIBILITIES WILL BE GENERALLY 3 TO 5 MILES IN RAIN AND FOG...BUT COULD GO TO 1 MILE OR A LITTLE LESS BRIEFLY IN THE CORE OF THE HEAVIER SHOWERS/TSTMS. AROUND SUNRISE PRECIP SHOULD BE ABOUT FINISHED BUT CEILING OF 5 HND TO 1 THSD FEET SHOULD LINGER FOR A WHILE UNTIL LOW LEVEL WINDS INCREASE OUT OF THE NORTHWEST. THEN BASES SHOULD IMPROVE TO BETWEEN 15 HND AND 3 THSD FEET. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... ATLANTA 51 56 40 57 / 100 80 40 10 ATHENS 47 55 38 57 / 100 80 30 10 GAINESVILLE 48 52 37 55 / 100 80 30 10 ROME 48 57 36 59 / 100 80 30 10 COLUMBUS 55 68 46 59 / 100 60 40 20 MACON 55 68 46 59 / 100 70 40 10 && .FFC WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... GA...NONE. && 26/15
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 727 PM EST WED FEB 23 2005 GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 089>098-102>113-241100- BALDWIN-BANKS-BARROW-BARTOW-BIBB-BLECKLEY-BUTTS-CARROLL-CATOOSA- CHATTAHOOCHEE-CHATTOOGA-CHEROKEE-CLARKE-CLAYTON-COBB-COWETA-CRAWFORD- CRISP-DADE-DAWSON-DE KALB-DODGE-DOOLY-DOUGLAS-EMANUEL-FANNIN-FAYETTE- FLOYD-FORSYTH-GILMER-GLASCOCK-GORDON-GREENE-GWINNETT-HALL-HANCOCK- HARALSON-HARRIS-HEARD-HENRY-HOUSTON-JACKSON-JASPER-JEFFERSON-JOHNSON- JONES-LAMAR-LAURENS-LUMPKIN-MACON-MADISON-MARION-MERIWETHER-MONROE- MONTGOMERY-MORGAN-MURRAY-MUSCOGEE-NEWTON-NORTH FULTON-OCONEE- OGLETHORPE-PAULDING-PEACH-PICKENS-PIKE-POLK-PULASKI-PUTNAM-ROCKDALE- SCHLEY-SOUTH FULTON-SPALDING-STEWART-SUMTER-TALBOT-TALIAFERRO-TAYLOR- TELFAIR-TOOMBS-TOWNS-TREUTLEN-TROUP-TWIGGS-UNION-UPSON-WALKER-WALTON- WARREN-WASHINGTON-WEBSTER-WHEELER-WHITE-WHITFIELD-WILCOX-WILKES- WILKINSON- 727 PM EST WED FEB 23 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...OVERNIGHT WEDNESDAY NIGHT. ...A FEW THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED TONIGHT... .SYNOPSIS... A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM OVER ALABAMA WILL BE MOVING ACROSS GEORGIA OVERNIGHT. .PRIMARY HAZARD...THE PRIMARY HAZARD FROM THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LIGHTNING. .DISCUSSION... AN AREA OF RAIN AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ASSOCIATED WITH A LOW PRESSURE AREA WILL MOVE ACROSS GEORGIA TONIGHT. INSTABILITY WILL BE LIMITED AS SURFACE DEWPOINTS OVER MUCH OF THE AREA ARE FAIRLY LOW. BEST INSTABILITY WILL BE ACROSS CENTRAL GEORGIA NEAR THE REMNANTS OF AN OLD FRONTAL BOUNDARY. SURFACE BASED LIFTED INDICES SHOULD RANGE FROM SLIGHTLY POSITIVE VALUES IN NORTH GEORGIA TO MINUS 2 ACROSS CENTRAL GEORGIA. CAPES WILL BE ONLY AROUND 200 IN THE NORTH TO BETWEEN 500 AND 1000 ACROSS THE MIDDLE OF THE STATE. THIS SHOULD LIMIT UPDRAFT SPEEDS AND KEEP STORMS BELOW SEVERE LIMITS. LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING STRIKES ARE ANTICIPATED WITH THESE STORMS. A COUPLE OF STORMS MIGHT PRODUCE SMALL HAIL. BEST CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE BETWEEN THE HOURS OF 7 PM AND 2AM EST. MOST OF THE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD OCCUR FROM NEAR THE I-20 CORRIDOR SOUTH ACROSS MUCH OF CENTRAL GEORGIA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THROUGH TONIGHT. .DAY TWO THROUGH DAY SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED. && FOR THE GRAPHICAL HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK AND OTHER WEATHER INFORMATION...PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT WEATHER.GOV...AND CLICK ON GEORGIA.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 738 PM EST WED FEB 23 2005 GAZ066-240115- 738 PM EST WED FEB 23 2005 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR FREQUENT LIGHTNING IN TROUP COUNTY UNTIL 815 PM EST... AT 737 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR ABBOTTSFORD TO NEAR HOGANSVILLE...MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH. THESE STORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE PEA SIZE HAIL AND RAINFALL AMOUNTS UP TO THREE QUARTER OF AN INCH PER HOUR. THE THREAT FROM THESE STORMS IS EXPECTED TO DIMINISH BY 815 PM EST.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 846 PM EST WED FEB 23 2005 GAZ053-240215- 846 PM EST WED FEB 23 2005 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR PEA-SIZE HAIL IN COWETA COUNTY UNTIL 915 PM EST... AT 837 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER NEWNAN...MOVING NORTH AT 35 MPH. THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE PEA SIZE HAIL AND FREQUENT CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING. BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS MAY CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS. THE THREAT FROM THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO DIMINISH BY 915 PM EST.
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 18 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:28 UTC.
1 lightning, 1 heavy rain. Local standard time, as filed.
The Times/Herald of Newnan reported that lightning struck a home blowing the electric meter out into the yard and destroying some wiring behind the stove. The incident also sparked a natural gas leak.
The News Daily of Jonesboro reported that heavy rain caused a partial roof collapse at the SP Recycling Corporation. The weight of the rain water that collected on the roof caused one of the building support columns to collapse. A female night shift worker suffered injuries to her leg during the roof collapse.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Georgia in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyWarnings in Georgia, February 2005
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: 5441172, 5441230.