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Georgia Flood Stories

2,508 first-hand accounts of flood events in Georgia, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.

Hurricane (Typhoon)$250K damage

Terrell, GA · Jul 9, 2005

Hurricane Dennis came ashore along the central Gulf coast on July 10. The lowest sea-level pressure and peak wind gust recorded were 1007.5 mb and 42 mph, respectively, at Albany, GA. Heavy rainfall commenced July 10, and persisted into the early morning hours of July 11.

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Hurricane (Typhoon)$250K damage

Seminole, GA · Jul 9, 2005

Hurricane Dennis came ashore along the central Gulf coast on July 10. The lowest sea-level pressure and peak wind gust recorded were 1007.5 mb and 42 mph, respectively, at Albany, GA. Heavy rainfall commenced July 10, and persisted into the early morning hours of July 11.

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Hurricane (Typhoon)$250K damage

Mitchell, GA · Jul 9, 2005

Hurricane Dennis came ashore along the central Gulf coast on July 10. The lowest sea-level pressure and peak wind gust recorded were 1007.5 mb and 42 mph, respectively, at Albany, GA. Heavy rainfall commenced July 10, and persisted into the early morning hours of July 11.

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Tropical Storm$250K damage

Miller, GA · Sep 15, 2004

Hurricane Ivan weakened to a tropical storm as it moved into southwest Alabama on September 16. The maximum sustained wind recorded was 29 knots at Albany, GA. The peak wind gust recorded was 37 knots at Valdosta, GA. The lowest sea-level pressure was 1003 mb at Albany.

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Tropical Storm$250K damage

Seminole, GA · Aug 22, 2008

Tropical Storm Fay, which came ashore along the northeast Florida coast, moved slowly westward toward the Florida Panhandle from the 22nd through the 24th. The rain bands from Fay produced sustained winds of 25 to 40 mph with frequent gusts over 45 mph.

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Flash Flood$230K damage

Cobb, GA · Sep 20, 2009

A historical, record, and catastrophic flood event unfolded during this period, mostly in the west central Georgia area, including the western and northwestern suburbs of Atlanta.

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Flash Flood$10K damage

Hall, GA · Jun 1, 2018

A series of fast moving upper-level short waves moving southeast out of the Ohio Valley brought two distinct rounds of thunderstorms into north Georgia, spreading south into portions of central Georgia.

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Flash Flood

Chattooga, GA · Jun 5, 2017

Ample moisture from the Gulf of Mexico combined with a weak upper disturbance to produce heavy rainfall and flash flooding in northwest Georgia June 4th and into June 5th.

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Flash Flood$200K damage

Gordon, GA · May 3, 1997

A slow moving line of storms crossed into northwest Georgia from Alabama and moved southeast across the Peach State. These storms produced more than 5 inches of rain in a less than twelve hour period late Friday night and early Saturday morning.

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Flash Flood$200K damage

Paulding, GA · Sep 20, 2009

A historical, record, and catastrophic flood event unfolded during this period, mostly in the west central Georgia area, including the western and northwestern suburbs of Atlanta.

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Flood$200K damage

Clay, GA · Mar 8, 1998

An intense Gulf storm produced 5 to 12 inches of rain across much of southwest Georgia on March 7-9 which caused widespread flooding. Baker, Ben Hill, Cook, Colquitt, Dougherty, Lee, Miller, Mitchell, Terrell, Decatur, Early, Brooks, Colquitt, Clay, Seminole, Calhoun, Thomas,…

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Flood$200K damage

Cherokee, GA · Jul 11, 2005

Heavy rain, associated with the remnants of Hurricane Dennis (moving north-northwest through western Alabama and eastern Mississippi), affected nearly all of north and central Georgia from the afternoon of Sunday July 10th through the morning hours of Monday July 11th.

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Flood$200K damage

Whitfield, GA · Sep 21, 2009

A historical, record, and catastrophic flood event unfolded during this period, mostly in the west central Georgia area, including the western and northwestern suburbs of Atlanta.

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Hurricane (Typhoon)$200K damage

Tift, GA · Jul 9, 2005

Hurricane Dennis came ashore along the central Gulf coast on July 10. The lowest sea-level pressure and peak wind gust recorded were 1007.5 mb and 42 mph, respectively, at Albany, GA. Heavy rainfall commenced July 10, and persisted into the early morning hours of July 11.

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Tropical Storm$200K damage

Tift, GA · Sep 26, 2004

Tropical Storm Jeanne moved north across south central Georgia during the early morning hours of September 27. Maximum sustained winds up to 40 knots with peak gusts to 50 knots were reported. The lowest sea-level pressure was 987.8 mb at Valdosta, GA.

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Tropical Storm$200K damage

Grady, GA · Sep 5, 2004

Tropical Storm Frances continued to slowly weaken as it moved north into southwest Georgia during the late afternoon and evening hours of September 6. Maximum sustained winds reached 38 knots at Albany, GA, with a peak wind gust 59 knots.

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Flash Flood$10K damage

Cobb, GA · Dec 24, 2015

Persistent, deep and strong southwesterly upper-level flow across the eastern U.S. resulted in an extremely moist and moderately unstable atmosphere over North and Central Georgia.

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Flash Flood$160K damage

Catoosa, GA · Sep 20, 2009

A historical, record, and catastrophic flood event unfolded during this period, mostly in the west central Georgia area, including the western and northwestern suburbs of Atlanta.

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Flood$160K damage

Catoosa, GA · Sep 21, 2009

A historical, record, and catastrophic flood event unfolded during this period, mostly in the west central Georgia area, including the western and northwestern suburbs of Atlanta.

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Flash Flood

Oglethorpe, GA · Mar 21, 2017

A large mesoscale convective complex developed along a cold front across central and southern Tennessee in response to a series of short waves sweeping through the region.

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Flash Flood$15K damage

Douglas, GA · May 19, 2013

An upper low was located over southern Kentucky on the morning of the 19th, with a shortwave trough extending into northern Georgia. Tropical moisture prevailed over Georgia as well.

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Flash Flood$15K damage

Floyd, GA · May 19, 2013

An upper low was located over southern Kentucky on the morning of the 19th, with a shortwave trough extending into northern Georgia. Tropical moisture prevailed over Georgia as well.

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Flash Flood$15K damage

Gwinnett, GA · May 19, 2013

An upper low was located over southern Kentucky on the morning of the 19th, with a shortwave trough extending into northern Georgia. Tropical moisture prevailed over Georgia as well.

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Flash Flood$15K damage

Houston, GA · Jul 10, 2013

The strong upper high remained over the Plains and desert Southwest, with a weak upper low across the Bahamas and an upper trough over Canada. A weak surface front was in place as well, stretching from the Great Lakes to the mid-Mississippi Valley.

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