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  • Flood Warning for Forsyth County, Georgia
  • Flood Warning issued October 11 at 10:38PM EDT until October 12 at 6:30PM EDT by NWS
  • Effective: Thursday, October 11, 2018 at 9:38 p.m.
  • Expires: Friday, October 12, 2018 at 5:30 p.m.
  • ...The Flood Warning continues for the following rivers in Georgia...
    Big Creek near Alpharetta affecting Forsyth and Fulton Counties
    ...Flood Warning extended until Friday evening...The Flood Warning
    continues for The Big Creek near Alpharetta.
    * Until Friday evening.
    * At 9 PM Thursday the stage was 7.1 feet...and steady.
    * Minor flooding is occurring and Minor flooding is forecast.
    * Flood stage is 7 feet.
    * The river will continue rising to near 7.3 feet by after midnight
    tomorrow. The river will fall below flood stage tomorrow early
    afternoon.
    * At 7 feet...Flood Stage is reached. Minor flooding of woodlands
    and fields begin along the creek between Cumming in Forsyth
    County...to Alpharetta and Roswell in North Fulton County.
    Flooding starts to effect portions of The Big Creek Greenway near
    Alpharetta and some portions may become closed with around one foot
    of water...especially upstream and downstream from the gage on
    Kimball Bridge Road and near Rock Mill Park. Portions of the YMCA
    Campground off Preston Ridge Road will begin to flood.
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