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Flash Flood — Carroll, GA

May 3, 2010

A deep upper-level trough was shifting slowly east from the central U.S. into the eastern U.S. A leading cold front was located from New York to Alabama. A summerlike subtropical ridge across the southeast U.S. was slowly shifting off the southeast U.S. coast. The highly meridional flow had allowed an unusually deep tropical air mass to spread far northward across the eastern half of the U.S. This weather system had been responsible for widespread catastrophic flooding in western and middle

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 227571). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

Flood Risk Context for Carroll, GA

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