Georgia, 2005

Flooding in Georgia, July 6 to 7, 2005

July 6 to 7, 2005 · NWS FFC · 12 events in 11 counties and zones

Heavy rainfall, in association with the remnants of Tropical Storm Cindy, fell across much of North Central Georgia between late afternoon and midnight on July 6th. Average rainfall was one to two inches across most of the area.

Where it happened

Every event with a place to put it; 8 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.

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The toll

Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Property damage
$25,000
Crop damage
None recorded
Events
12

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 happened

The episode as NWS FFC wrote it up.

Heavy rainfall, in association with the remnants of Tropical Storm Cindy, fell across much of North Central Georgia between late afternoon and midnight on July 6th. Average rainfall was one to two inches across most of the area. However, much of the west and south side of the Atlanta metropolitan area received three to five inches of rain during this period. A number of counties experienced flooding, and a few even had flash flooding. Below are some of the specific highlights with respect to general flooding.Coweta: Excessive rainfall resulted in street flooding, some of which was quite significant. There was at least one incident in the county that met flash flooding criteria. Rainfall across much of the county was in the three to five inch range during the evening.Douglas: Heavy rain had resulted in a sinkhole on Tyson Road in Villa Rica. A delivery truck was stuck in the hole for several hours. In addition, Woodrow Wilson Park in Lithia Springs was flooded from the heavy rainfall. (Estimated Damages: $5,000)Fayette: Heavy rain caused flooding of several streets and roads in the county. Flash flooding was reported in Peachtree City and one death occurred as a result.Meriwether: Significant flooding was reported across the northwest part of the county. Georgia Highway 54 was under two to three feet of water in the northwest part of the county near Forest Road. Rainfall across the northwest part of the county was in the three to five inch range between 4 pm EDT and 10 pm EDT.Rockdale: Rainfall across much of the county exceeded four inches, with some rainfall up to six inches. Flooding was reported in some areas. A home in the Martha's Vineyard subdivision was flooded when a drainage system overflowed. The back of the home was submerged in six feet of water.

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 Jul 6, 4:30 PM EST, 2 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 6, 4:30 PM EST, 2 hours 30 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
530 PM EDT WED JUL 6 2005

.SHORT TERM...
CINDY REMAINS THE FOCUS THROUGH THURSDAY. THE REMNANTS OF THE
TROPICAL STORM WILL BE MOVING NORTHEAST OUT OF ALABAMA INTO NORTH
GEORGIA THIS EVENING. STILL EXPECT FAIRLY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE
NORTHERN AND WESTERN GEORGIA AREAS...SO I HAVE LEFT THE FLOOD WATCH
IN EFFECT UNCHANGED FOR NOW. SYSTEM MOVES OUT LATER IN THE DAY
THURSDAY THROUGH THURSDAY EVENING...ENDING PRECIPITATION. FRIDAY
LOOKS FAIRLY DRY IN THE WAKE OF THIS SYSTEM...BUT SUFFICIENT RESIDUAL
MOISTURE ALONG WITH EASTERLY FLOW FOR ISOLATED TO SCATTERED
CONVECTION TO BEGIN AGAIN BY SATURDAY.

.LONG TERM...
NEXT WEEKS SPECIAL GUEST STAR APPEARS TO BE DENNIS...AS TPC AND GFS
MODEL BRING THE NEXT TROPICAL SYSTEM INTO THE GULF OF MEXICO OVER THE
WEEKEND. CURRENT FORECAST TRACK BRINGS DENNIS TO THE CENTRAL GULF
COAST EARLY MONDAY AS A FAIRLY STRONG HURRICANE. GFS MODEL THEN TAKES
THE SYSTEM NORTHWEST INTO THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY AND EVENTUALLY INTO
OKLAHOMA BY MID WEEK AS A LARGE RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS OVER
THE EASTERN U.S.  THIS IS A RATHER UNUSUAL PATH FOR A GULF COAST
TROPICAL SYSTEM TO FOLLOW...SO CONFIDENCE IN THE FINAL OUTCOME IS A
BIT LOW. WILL KEEP THE EXTENDED FORECAST INTENTIONALLY VAGUE FOR NOW
UNTIL WE GET A BETTER IDEA OF HOW THIS WILL ALL PAN OUT.
&&

.AVIATION...
CINDY SPREADING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS (SOME STRONG) INTO WESTERN
PORTIONS OF THE COUNTY WARNING AREA AT THE MOMENT...AND LOOK FOR
WIDESPREAD PRECIP TO CONTINUE OVER THE AREA THROUGH THE NIGHT INTO
EARLY THURSDAY. WILL GENERALLY KEEP CIGS IN THE MVFR TO VFR RANGE
DURING THE EVENING...THEN LOWERING INTO THE IFR RANGE FROM WEST TO
EAST AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOOK FOR LIFR TO IFR CIGS TO BE THE RULE BY
08Z. WILL GRADUALLY LIFT CIGS BACK INTO THE MVFR RANGE AFTER
SUNRISE. VSBYS GENERALLY IN THE 3 TO 5 MILE RANGE IN SHOWERS...AOB 1
MILE POSSIBLE IN TSTORMS.

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
ATLANTA         69  84  70  90 / 100  40  20  20
ATHENS          69  84  68  91 /  70  70  30  20
GAINESVILLE     69  82  68  90 / 100  70  30  20
ROME            68  83  68  91 / 100  40  20  20
COLUMBUS        73  88  72  93 /  60  40  20  20
MACON           72  89  71  93 /  60  40  20  20

&&

.FFC WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
GA...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FROM 4 PM WEDNESDAY UNTIL 5 PM EDT
      THURSDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING ZONES...BALDWIN...BANKS...
      BARROW...BARTOW...BUTTS...CARROLL...CATOOSA...CHATTOOGA...
      CHEROKEE...CLARKE...CLAYTON...COBB...COWETA...DADE...
      DAWSON...DEKALB...DOUGLAS...FANNIN...FAYETTE...FLOYD...
      FORSYTH...GILMER...GORDON...GREENE...GWINNETT...HALL...
      HANCOCK...HARALSON...HARRIS...HEARD...HENRY...JACKSON...
      JASPER...JONES...LAMAR...LUMPKIN...MADISON...MERIWETHER...
      MONROE...MORGAN...MURRAY...MUSCOGEE...NEWTON...NORTH
      FULTON...OCONEE...OGLETHORPE...PAULDING...PICKENS...PIKE...
      POLK...PUTNAM...ROCKDALE...SOUTH FULTON...SPALDING...
      TALBOT...TALIAFERRO...TOWNS...TROUP...UNION...UPSON...
      WALKER...WALTON...WARREN...WHITE...WHITFIELD...AND WILKES.

&&

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 6, 5:26 PM EST, 1 hour 34 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
626 PM EDT WED JUL 06 2005

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

0530 PM     TSTM WND DMG     GLENN                   33.15N 85.20W
07/06/2005                   HEARD              GA   EMERGENCY MNGR

            POSSIBLE TORNADO

&&

TM
Local storm report, Jul 6, 5:40 PM EST, 1 hour 20 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
640 PM EDT WED JUL 06 2005

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

0615 PM     TSTM WND DMG     2 N DURAND              32.95N 84.77W
07/06/2005                   MERIWETHER         GA   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            SEVERAL TREES DOWN. POSSIBLE TORNADO

&&

TM

The radar

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Event by event

12 flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flood, Haralson

When
July 6, 7:00 PM EST to 11:00 PM EST
Where
Haralson forecast zone
Reported by
OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
Coordinates
33.794, -85.211 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Flood, Carroll

When
July 6, 7:00 PM EST to 11:00 PM EST
Where
Carroll forecast zone
Reported by
OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
Coordinates
33.583, -85.080 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Flood, Heard

When
July 6, 7:00 PM EST to 11:00 PM EST
Where
Heard forecast zone
Reported by
OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
Coordinates
33.297, -85.128 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Flood, Meriwether

When
July 6, 7:50 PM EST to 9:45 PM EST
Where
Meriwether forecast zone
Reported by
GOVT OFFICIAL
Coordinates
33.900, -84.550

Flood, Haralson

When
July 6, 8:00 PM EST to July 7, 12:00 AM EST
Where
Haralson forecast zone
Reported by
OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
Coordinates
33.794, -85.211 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Flood, Polk

When
July 6, 8:00 PM EST to July 7, 12:00 AM EST
Where
Polk forecast zone
Reported by
OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
Coordinates
34.002, -85.188 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Flood, Paulding

When
July 6, 8:00 PM EST to July 7, 12:00 AM EST
Where
Paulding forecast zone
Reported by
OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
Coordinates
32.400, -81.750

Flood, Fayette

When
July 6, 8:00 PM EST to 11:00 PM EST
Where
Fayette forecast zone
Reported by
EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates
33.414, -84.494 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Flood, Coweta

When
July 6, 8:14 PM EST to 9:45 PM EST
Where
Coweta forecast zone
Reported by
GOVT OFFICIAL
Coordinates
32.367, -84.833

Flood, Douglas

When
July 6, 9:00 PM EST to July 7, 12:00 AM EST
Where
Douglas forecast zone
Property damage
$25,000
Reported by
NEWSPAPER
Coordinates
32.400, -82.067

Flood, South Fulton

When
July 6, 9:00 PM EST to July 7, 12:00 AM EST
Where
South Fulton forecast zone
Reported by
OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
Coordinates
33.790, -84.467 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Flood, Rockdale

When
July 6, 9:59 PM EST to July 7, 1:00 AM EST
Where
Rockdale forecast zone
Reported by
NEWSPAPER
Coordinates
33.654, -84.027 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

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.

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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: 5467464, 5467465, 5467469, 5467410, 5467466, 5467467, 5467468, 5467471, 5467409, 5467462, 5467463, 5467470.