Flash Flood — Grady, Georgia

2008-08-23 · near Beachton, Grady, Georgia

Event narrative

Many roads and low lying areas were flooded. More than 700 miles of county roads were were undermined by the flood waters. A teenage boy drowned when he fell into rushing flood waters of an overflowing lake in Deer Lake subdivision. A man was seriously injured trying to save the boy. Numerous homes in Cairo were flooded, with some inundated by water as high as four feet. Rainfall amounts ranged from ten to twenty inches throughout the county.

Wider weather episode

Tropical Storm Fay made its fourth landfall on Saturday, August 23rd near Carrabelle, Florida, then continued on a steady westward path across the Florida Panhandle. Intense rain bands, which trained over the same locations during the afternoon and evening hours, producing extremely high rainfall rates and subsequent flash flooding across portions of southwest and south central Georgia.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 155134. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.