Jun 7, 2017
A cold front moving south across the state provided a focus for shower and thunderstorm development over central Georgia on June 7th. The anonymously moist and unstable environment produced stubborn, slow moving thunderstorms and isolated flash flooding. In southern Sumter county, a persistent storms dropped 4 to 6 inches of rainfall over a very localized area.
Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 710365). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.
This event is one of many recorded floods in Sumter County. See the full FEMA flood zone map, NFIP claim totals, and disaster history for the area.