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1/27/2024
WT Staff
HAPPENING NOW
NWS: Flood Watch
Ocmulgee River flooding at Macon
Saturday, January 27, 2024 - last updated 105 pm EST
National Weather Service Hazardous Weather Outlook issued 355 am Jan 27, 2024
A Flood Watch remains in effect for portions of north and west-central Georgia until 1 AM Sunday. Continued runoff may result in flooding of rivers, creeks, streams, and other low-lying and
flood-prone areas. Anyone with interests along bodies of water within the Flood Watch should monitor river levels closely.
There is also a Marginal Risk for severe thunderstorms this afternoon across portions of north and central Georgia. The primary hazard is damaging wind gusts, though a tornado cannot be
ruled out.
Impacting 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 Counties
Flood and streamflow report
USGS Streamflow gauges - see Provisional Data Statement below
In the Mississippi basin, Sweetwater Creek continues to flood more than a foot outside its channel at Austell. In the Atlantic basin, Ocmulgee River still flows two feet over flood stage at Macon.
See black tags on the map for flood flow details, blue tags for flows above 99th percentile.
Turn around, don`t drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood deaths occur in vehicles.
http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
Streamflows in the northwest run normal to above normal Saturday. In the northeast flows are much above normal. South on the Mississippi side, streamflows are much above normal, shifting to normal levels as the rivers and tributaries flow southward.
Drought Map USGS 7-day average streamflow compared with historic average
Remaining on the drought map on the Mississippi side of the drainage divide Saturday, a part of the lower Flint River watershed in the Mississippi basin side of the Georgia divide.
On the Atlantic side of the divide, Lower Ocmulgee River watershed remains rated below normal at south Laurens, east Dodge, west Wheeler and north Telfair.
USGS seven-day average streamflows at each monitoring location are rated against the historic average flow volume for this day. Results appear on the drought map, showing surface area with a rating: below normal, moderate drought, severe drought or extreme drought. The drought-rated surface area most often follows watershed lines, the physical topography of drainage and direction of flow of the surface water across the state. The watershed layer on the map shows surface area impacted by streamflows in each drainage area. Turn the directional arrows on to see which way the water flows, along with hazardous spills reported in the area that could have an impact on water quality.
HABs update from Georgia Department of Natural Resources - Coastal Resources Division Shellfish and Water Quality Unit
Permanent advisories remain in effect for bacterial contamination at Jekyll Clam Creek Beach on the north end of Jekyll Island and St Andrews Beach on the south end. Lab tests processed at Brunswick on samples collected Tuesday January 2, 2024 show the enterococcus levels below the health advisory threshold. Clam Creek Beach came in at 4 cfu per 100 ml and 9 cfu per 100 ml for St Andrews.
USGS Provisional Data Statement
Data are provisional and subject to revision until they have been thoroughly reviewed and received final approval. Current condition data relayed by satellite or other telemetry are automatically screened to not display improbable values until they can be verified.
Provisional data may be inaccurate due to instrument malfunctions or physical changes at the measurement site. Subsequent review based on field inspections and measurements may result in significant revisions to the data.
Data users are cautioned to consider carefully the provisional nature of the information before using it for decisions that concern personal or public safety or the conduct of business that involves substantial monetary or operational consequences. Information concerning the accuracy and appropriate uses of these data or concerning other hydrologic data may be obtained from the USGS.
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