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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.

Flood

Coffee, GA · Apr 24, 2021

A potent storm system developing over the lower MS River Valley tracked eastward across the Gulf Coast States and brought a couple rounds of severe storms to the local area.

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Flood

Atkinson, GA · Apr 24, 2021

A potent storm system developing over the lower MS River Valley tracked eastward across the Gulf Coast States and brought a couple rounds of severe storms to the local area.

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Flood

Charlton, GA · Jul 7, 2021

Tropical Storm Elsa tracked NNE across the western tier of the local forecast area through the day on Wed, July 7th. The storm made landfall along the FL Big Bend coast.

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Flood

Rabun, GA · Oct 7, 2021

A slow moving area of upper level low pressure over the Mid-Mississippi Valley pumped semi-tropical weather into north Georgia for a couple of days, resulting in occasional rounds of moderate to heavy in the day leading up to the 7th.

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Flood

Habersham, GA · Oct 7, 2021

A slow moving area of upper level low pressure over the Mid-Mississippi Valley pumped semi-tropical weather into north Georgia for a couple of days, resulting in occasional rounds of moderate to heavy in the day leading up to the 7th.

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Tropical Depression

Inland Chatham, GA · Jul 7, 2021

Elsa initially developed as a Tropical Depression over the central tropical Atlantic late in the evening of June 30th, 2021. The system quickly tracked to the west-northwest and became Tropical Storm Elsa on the morning of July 1st, 2021 about 850 miles east-southeast of the…

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Tropical Depression

Long, GA · Jul 7, 2021

Elsa initially developed as a Tropical Depression over the central tropical Atlantic late in the evening of June 30th, 2021. The system quickly tracked to the west-northwest and became Tropical Storm Elsa on the morning of July 1st, 2021 about 850 miles east-southeast of the…

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Tropical Depression

Inland McIntosh, GA · Jul 7, 2021

Elsa initially developed as a Tropical Depression over the central tropical Atlantic late in the evening of June 30th, 2021. The system quickly tracked to the west-northwest and became Tropical Storm Elsa on the morning of July 1st, 2021 about 850 miles east-southeast of the…

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Tropical Depression

Effingham, GA · Jul 7, 2021

Elsa initially developed as a Tropical Depression over the central tropical Atlantic late in the evening of June 30th, 2021. The system quickly tracked to the west-northwest and became Tropical Storm Elsa on the morning of July 1st, 2021 about 850 miles east-southeast of the…

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Tropical Storm

Coastal Glynn, GA · Jul 7, 2021

Tropical Storm Elsa tracked NNE across the western tier of the local forecast area through the day on Wed, July 7th. The storm made landfall along the FL Big Bend coast.

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Tropical Storm

Coastal Chatham, GA · Jun 28, 2021

Tropical Storm Danny initially developed as a tropical depression approximately 110 miles off the Southeast United States coast during the late morning of June 28th, 2021, slowly tracking west-northwest across warmer gulf stream waters and eventually reaching tropical storm…

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Tropical Storm

Coastal Chatham, GA · Jul 7, 2021

Elsa initially developed as a Tropical Depression over the central tropical Atlantic late in the evening of June 30th, 2021. The system quickly tracked to the west-northwest and became Tropical Storm Elsa on the morning of July 1st, 2021 about 850 miles east-southeast of the…

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Flash Flood

De Kalb, GA · Sep 7, 2014

Deep tropical moisture persisted across the state. Weak upper-level waves along with strong afternoon heating combined to produce isolated strong to severe thunderstorms each afternoon and evening.

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Flash Flood

Muscogee, GA · Sep 7, 2014

Deep tropical moisture persisted across the state. Weak upper-level waves along with strong afternoon heating combined to produce isolated strong to severe thunderstorms each afternoon and evening.

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Flash Flood

Oconee, GA · Jun 17, 2013

A shortwave pushed through the Southeast on the 17th, with an axis of deep moisture in place across mainly north Georgia. Once again, numerous showers and thunderstorms developed, and a few of these had enough rainfall to produce isolated flash flooding.

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Tropical Storm

Inland Chatham, GA · Jun 6, 2013

Tropical Storm Andrea lifted northeast out of the Gulf of Mexico Thursday night and over southeast Georgia and southeast South Carolina into Friday.

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Flash Flood

Floyd, GA · Jul 20, 2021

Afternoon showers and thunderstorms produced widespread heavy rain over north and central Georgia on the evening of July 19th and 20th. Rainfall amounts ranged from 1 to 3 inches, with pockets of 3 to 5 inches over northeast Georgia and the Atlanta metro area.

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Flash Flood

Floyd, GA · Jul 20, 2021

Afternoon showers and thunderstorms produced widespread heavy rain over north and central Georgia on the evening of July 19th and 20th. Rainfall amounts ranged from 1 to 3 inches, with pockets of 3 to 5 inches over northeast Georgia and the Atlanta metro area.

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Flash Flood

De Kalb, GA · Jul 19, 2021

Afternoon showers and thunderstorms produced widespread heavy rain over north and central Georgia on the evening of July 19th and 20th. Rainfall amounts ranged from 1 to 3 inches, with pockets of 3 to 5 inches over northeast Georgia and the Atlanta metro area.

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Flash Flood

Floyd, GA · Jul 20, 2021

Afternoon showers and thunderstorms produced widespread heavy rain over north and central Georgia on the evening of July 19th and 20th. Rainfall amounts ranged from 1 to 3 inches, with pockets of 3 to 5 inches over northeast Georgia and the Atlanta metro area.

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Flash Flood

Floyd, GA · Jul 20, 2021

Afternoon showers and thunderstorms produced widespread heavy rain over north and central Georgia on the evening of July 19th and 20th. Rainfall amounts ranged from 1 to 3 inches, with pockets of 3 to 5 inches over northeast Georgia and the Atlanta metro area.

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Flash Flood

Carroll, GA · Jul 20, 2021

Afternoon showers and thunderstorms produced widespread heavy rain over north and central Georgia on the evening of July 19th and 20th. Rainfall amounts ranged from 1 to 3 inches, with pockets of 3 to 5 inches over northeast Georgia and the Atlanta metro area.

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Flood

Camden, GA · Aug 18, 2025

A surface front was nudged southward across the local area through the day as high pressure strengthened north of the region. The front combined with high moisture, weak storm motion and diurnal instability with additional sea breeze forcing produced localized heavy rainfall…

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Flash Flood

Cobb, GA · Jan 4, 2015

A strong surface low associated with a deep upper-level trough lifted out of the lower Mississippi Valley and swept across the southern Appalachians the evening of January 3rd through the morning of January 4th producing heavy rain and flash flooding, severe thunderstorms and…

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