UPDATE: Flash Flood Watch in effect until Tuesday evening

PEACHTREE CITY, Ga – National Weather Service (NWS) issued a flash flood watch for much of north Georgia from Monday, Feb. 10 at 1 p.m. to Tuesday, Feb. 11 at 7 p.m.

FROM NWS:

“.DAY ONE…This Afternoon and Tonight… …Flash Flood Watch in Effect through Tuesday evening for North Georgia… Heavy rainfall of 2 to 4 inches will be possible tonight into Tuesday across north Georgia. With wet soil from the heavy rain event late last week, runoff from heavy rainfall will pose an above- normal threat for flash flooding. Many larger creeks and rivers already have high streamflows and will increase the risk of new flooding and flash flooding.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN…Tuesday through Sunday… Moderate to heavy rainfall will continue across much of North and Central Georgia on Tuesday. Additional heavy rain on Wednesday night and Thursday will further increase flooding concerns across the area. Strong to potentially severe thunderstorms are possible across portions of western Georgia Wednesday afternoon and evening.”

The wet conditions mark a continuation of a soggy Union County that has experienced flooding and 5 inches of snow since Thursday, Feb. 6.

Other counties included in the watch are:

Baldwin-Banks-Barrow-Bartow-Bibb-Bleckley-Butts-Carroll-Catoosa- Chattahoochee-Chattooga-Cherokee-Clarke-Clayton-Cobb-Coweta- Crawford-Crisp-Dade-Dawson-DeKalb-Dodge-Dooly-Douglas-Emanuel- Fannin-Fayette-Floyd-Forsyth-Gilmer-Glascock-Gordon-Greene- Gwinnett-Hall-Hancock-Haralson-Harris-Heard-Henry-Houston-Jackson- Jasper-Jefferson-Johnson-Jones-Lamar-Laurens-Lumpkin-Macon- Madison-Marion-Meriwether-Monroe-Montgomery-Morgan-Murray- Muscogee-Newton-North Fulton-Oconee-Oglethorpe-Paulding-Peach- Pickens-Pike-Polk-Pulaski-Putnam-Rockdale-Schley-South Fulton- Spalding-Stewart-Sumter-Talbot-Taliaferro-Taylor-Telfair-Toombs- Towns-Treutlen-Troup-Twiggs-Union-Upson-Walker-Walton-Warren- Washington-Webster-Wheeler-White-Whitfield-Wilcox-Wilkes- Wilkinson.

Sole Commissioner Lamar Paris posted this on his Facebook:

“We are under a Flash Flood Watch with rain tonight and into tomorrow evening, a possible 3″ to 4″, and depending on storm movement, possible 4″ to 6″. If it is the latter and if it is fairly concentrated in time, we could experience significant flooding tonight and tomorrow. I do not want to scare you, but with the saturation level of our soil, runoff could be near 100%. The worse part is this will be after dark and through the night!

We just want everyone in low lying areas to consider not sleeping too sound and be alert. This could be an overblown storm watch and we certainly hope so. But if we exceed over 3″ of rain in the next 24 hrs, we Will Have Flooding in Low Lying Areas. Just please stay alert!! If you have any emergencies, call E-911 and Do Not drive thru rushing water with your vehicle. Be safe!”