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Weather Alert Detail

Special Weather Statement for Polk County, Georgia
Special Weather Statement issued May 19 at 5:07PM EDT by NWS
Effective: Sunday, May 19, 2013 at 5:07 p.m.
Expires: Sunday, May 19, 2013 at 6 p.m.
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR HEAVY RAIN IN POLK...PAULDING...
COBB AND HARALSON COUNTIES UNTIL 600 PM EDT...
AT 505 PM EDT...METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING SCATTERED AREAS OF
HEAVY RAIN DEVELOPING OVER FLOYD AND POLK COUNTIES. THESE AREAS WERE
SLOWLY MOVING EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH AND WILL BE CAPABLE OF A
QUICK INCH OR MORE OF RAIN THROUGH 600 PM EDT.
ADDITIONALLY...MORE HEAVY SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS TO THE
NORTH OVER NORTHWEST GEORGIA IS SLOWLY SHIFTING SOUTH. THIS ACTIVITY
WILL LIKELY SPREAD INTO POLK...PAULDING...COBB AND HARALSON COUNTIES
AFTER 600 PM EDT AND IF THEY DONT WEAKEN...THEY COULD PRODUCE
ANOTHER ROUND OF FLASH FLOODING. REMAIN ALERT FOR ADDITIONAL
STATEMENTS AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE ACTION IF A WARNING IS ISSUED.
THROUGH 600 PM EDT...RUNOFF FROM THESE HEAVY SHOWERS COULD CAUSE
TEMPORARY STREET FLOODING OR RISES TO NEAR BANKFULL OF SMALL CREEKS
AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS... STREETS AND UNDERPASSES
ACROSS FLOYD COUNTY...INCLUDING AREAS AROUND CAVE SPRING...
LINDALE... ROME...COOSA...ARMUCHEE...SENEY...SHANNON AND PINSON.
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