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Flash Flood — Banks, GA

Aug 8, 2013

An upper low over Canada continued to spin on the 8th, keeping the Southeast in a northwest flow regime aloft, though the flow was weakening by this point. A weak upper disturbance moved across the state during the afternoon, triggering showers and thunderstorms. Thunderstorms with heavy rain in northwest and northeast Georgia produced isolated flash flooding.

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 469273). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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