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Flood — Putnam, FL

Aug 16, 2023

Unsettled southwest flow continued rounds of showers and thunderstorms with a surface trough lingering over Georgia and passing mid-level short wave troughs from the |WSW enhancing rounds of convection near low level convergence. Deep layer moisture with PWAT 2+ inches was under fairly weak WSW steering flow of < 10 kts and continued the localized heavy rainfall threat, especially during the afternoon toward the Atlantic |coast where the east coast sea breeze developed and across SE GA near the

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 1124055). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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