Flash Flood — Oglethorpe, Georgia

2017-03-21 · near Crawford, Oglethorpe, Georgia

Event narrative

The Emergency Manager reported that flash flooding from heavy rain overwhelmed a pipe under the a section of roadway near Bunker Rill Road and Athens Road causing erosion under the roadway and an eventual washout.

Wider weather episode

A large mesoscale convective complex developed along a cold front across central and southern Tennessee in response to a series of short waves sweeping through the region. These thunderstorms encountered an unstable and moderately-sheared atmosphere as they moved south into north Georgia producing numerous, widespread reports of large hail and damaging thunderstorm winds as well as two isolated tornadoes.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 690547. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.