Flood Watch through Wednesday evening for portions of northeast Georgia

By Steve Winslow Anchor/Reporter

Posted 9:30AM on Wednesday, August 6, 2025

The National Weather Service (NWS) out of Peachtree City is issuing a Flood Watch for much of northeast Georgia into the evening hours.

A press release from the NWS early Wednesday indicated that areas of light to moderate rainfall are ongoing across portions of Georgia, mainly south of Macon, but most of the state could see potential for isolated areas of heavy rain, during the afternoon hours.

While rainfall totals are expected to be less today than the past few days of heavy rain, the amount of rain received over such a short period of time has primed conditions to flood quickly and as a result, the flood watch has been extended through the day.

Areas in northeast Georgia in the Flood Watch include Banks, Barrow, Forsyth and Fannin Counties, along with Gilmer, Gwinnett, Hall, Jackson, Lumpkin,Towns and Union Counties. All counties between Gainesville, Athens and Atlanta are under the Flood Watch.

Further details about the NWS Flood Watch issued to the region include:

A Flood Watch remains in effect until 8 PM this evening conditional to today's rainfall.
A Marginal Risk (Level 1 of 4) for excessive rainfall remains in effect today south and easy of the I-75 corridor.
Additional rainfall of 1-2 inches are possible, with isolated pockets of up to 3-5 inches associated with the heaviest rainfall.
Areas within the Flood Watch are primed for flooding conditions. These areas have already received 1-2 inches of rainfall over the past 24-hours and widespread 2-4 inches of rainfall over the past 48 hours.
Heavy rain during a short amount of time could result in flooded roadways especially in areas with poor drainage.
Saturated soils could result in quicker flash flooding conditions should rain persist (train) over the same area(s).
Any thunderstorms that produce gusty winds, even winds 25-30 MPH, could result in downed trees due to saturated soils