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BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
830 PM EDT THU OCT 11 2018
...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A FLOOD
WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING RIVERS IN GEORGIA...
SWEETWATER CREEK NEAR AUSTELL AFFECTING COBB AND DOUGLAS COUNTIES
.RECENT HEAVY RAINFALL HAS CAUSED SIGNIFICANT RUNOFF INTO STREAMS AND
RIVERS WHICH WILL CAUSE FLOODING IN SOME AREAS.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
ALL PERSONS WITH INTERESTS ALONG THE RIVER SHOULD MONITOR THE LATEST
FORECASTS...AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT
LIFE AND PROPERTY.
THE LATEST STAGE DATA WAS FURNISHED IN COOPERATION WITH THE UNITED
STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY.
GAC067-097-121429-
/O.NEW.KFFC.FL.W.0100.181012T0834Z-181013T1305Z/
/AUSG1.1.ER.181012T0834Z.181012T1800Z.181013T0705Z.NO/
830 PM EDT THU OCT 11 2018
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* FLOOD WARNING FOR THE SWEETWATER CREEK NEAR AUSTELL.
* FROM LATE TONIGHT UNTIL SATURDAY MORNING.
* AT 8 PM THURSDAY THE STAGE WAS 8.4 FEET...AND RISING.
* MINOR FLOODING IS FORECAST.
* FLOOD STAGE IS 10 FEET.
* FORECAST TO RISE ABOVE FLOOD STAGE BY EARLY TOMORROW AND CONTINUE
TO RISE TO NEAR 10.7 FEET BY TOMORROW EVENING.THE RIVER WILL FALL
BELOW FLOOD STAGE BY SATURDAY MORNING.
* AT 10 FEET...FLOOD STAGE IS REACHED. MINOR FLOODING OCCURS IN THE
WOODLANDS AND FIELDS UPSTREAM AND DOWNSTREAM FROM THE GAGE NEAR THE
INTERSTATE 20 BRIDGE. PORTIONS OF A PAINTBALL PLAYING FIELD JUST
DOWNSTREAM OF THE BRIDGE BEGIN TO FLOOD. ATHLETIC FIELDS IN THE
WOODROW WILSON PARK ON MOUNT VERNON ROAD BEGIN TO FLOOD DUE TO
WATER BACKING UP IN DITCHES. WATER ALSO BEGINS TO FLOODS YARDS OF
FOUR ELEVATED HOMES ALONG MOUNT VERNON ROAD.
LAT...LON 3379 8464 3385 8463 3380 8459 3374 8459
3370 8463 3376 8466
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