Flash Flood — Greene, Georgia

2018-05-31 · near Greshamville, Greene, Georgia

Event narrative

Emergency Manager reported that five roads were washed out in the Greshamville area, northward toward Farmington.

Wider weather episode

With ample deep moisture persisting across the region, strong afternoon heating aided by a weak upper-level trough resulted in numerous strong thunderstorms across north Georgia with isolated reports of severe thunderstorms producing damaging wind gusts. Heavy rainfall amounts occurred in portions of north and central Georgia, generally in the northeast Georgia mountains, and in the greater Columbus area. In these locations, rainfall amounts of 3 to 4 inches were common, with isolated higher amounts to 5 inches in the mountains, which produced isolated flash flooding and exacerbated flooding from the previous day.

View location on OpenStreetMap → (33.6265, -83.3238)

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 762161. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.