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Flood — Gilmer, GA

Jul 22, 2008

An upper low continued to deepen across the northeast U.S. and was digging southward into the southeast United States A strong cold front was moving south from the Ohio Valley toward the southeast United States. Scattered to numerous showers and thunderstorms developed in Alabama during the early afternoon and expanded and spread eastward into western Georgia during the mid-afternoon. Many of these storms produced damaging wind and large hail. An expansive outflow boundary spread eastward ac

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 129453). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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