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EXPIRED5/9/2024 7:38:00 AM (UTC)Urgency: ExpectedSeverity: SevereCertainty: Likely
5/9/2024 7:38:00 AM until 5/9/2024 8:00:00 PM
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Additional information is available at weather.gov/atlanta.
The National Weather Service in Peachtree City GA has issued a
Flood Warning for the following rivers in Georgia...Tennessee...
Lookout Creek near New England affecting Dade and Hamilton
Counties.
For the Lookout Creek...including Flintstone, New England...Minor
flooding is forecast.
* WHAT...Minor flooding is forecast.
* WHERE...Lookout Creek near New England.
* WHEN...Until early tomorrow afternoon.
* IMPACTS...At 13 feet, Minor flooding expands along Sells Lane in
Trenton...Mason Road near Rising Fawn...and Creek Road near New
England. All these roads will be closed. Also minor flooding
expands much further downstream as the creek crosses the Tennessee
border into the Tiftonia area.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 7:15 AM EDT Thursday the stage was 11.5 feet and rising.
- Forecast...The river is expected to rise above flood stage
this morning to a crest of 13.5 feet this afternoon. It will
then fall below flood stage tomorrow morning.
- Flood stage is 12 feet.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood