Flood — Glascock, Georgia

2011-07-07 · near Harts, Glascock, Georgia

Event narrative

The Glascock County Emergency Management Director reported that heavy rainfall on the order of five to six inches in a two to three hour period across southern Warren and northern Glascock county had resulted in excessive runoff from Beechtree Branch Creek. The creek flooded and washed out a culvert on Log Cabin Road, a dirt road in the far northeastern part of the county near the Warren county line.

Wider weather episode

A weak upper trough lingered across the eastern U.S. while a strong subtropical ridge remained anchored across the Southern Plains. The atmosphere across the southeast was extremely moist, but only marginally unstable. Scattered to numerous showers and thunderstorms developed during the afternoon. During the early to mid-evening hours, showers and thunderstorms with heavy rain persisted across southern Warren and northern Glascock counties in east central Georgia. WSR-88D Storm Total Precipitation estimated that rainfall of five to six inches had fallen across southern Warren and northern Glascock county, near and paralleling the Warren/Glascock county lines between Beall Springs and Reese, southward to just north of Gibson. Most of this rainfall fell between 7 pm and 9 pm EDT. Subsequently, a dirt road in northern Glascock county was washed out as a result of runoff from the Beechtree Branch creek.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 332252. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.