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Flash Flood — Grady, GA

Aug 23, 2008

Tropical Storm Fay made its fourth landfall on Saturday, August 23rd near Carrabelle, Florida, then continued on a steady westward path across the Florida Panhandle. Intense rain bands, which trained over the same locations during the afternoon and evening hours, producing extremely high rainfall rates and subsequent flash flooding across portions of southwest and south central Georgia.

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 155134). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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