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Tropical Major Hurricane Michael

First post but a longtime lurker. Anyway, here near Emory in NE Atlanta so far periodic moderate to heavy rain since 5PM. Surprisingly though not much in the way of wind gusts. The wind has only been stirring ever so lightly so far and I'm glad for that with all of the large trees surrounding me here. However, nearby PDK airport has reported gusts to 33 and sustained of 13 from the NE.

EDIT: typo..gusts at PDK to 22 not 33.
 
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If that Hrrrr model is right. Then Greenville-Spartanburg Pickens and Oconee in Upstate South Carolina in for a really nasty band around 7am. Wind gust close to 50.
 
This sucker is no joke! We’re in se Alabama about 60 miles from the Florida line and have been getting a good thumping since about 4 pm. Most of town without power, most streets blocked, city streets declared impassable due to trees and power lines at 8 pm. I can not imagine how awful it was/is any closer to this monster!
 
Ethan80963 said:
What are the chances of GSP putting a tropical storm warning in the upstate in the 11 o’clock advisory?
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I was just wondering the same thing. I thought they were going to expand the warning earlier. Seems a little late in the game. People are asleep. My best guess is that they will not pull the trigger
 
Ethan80963 said:
What are the chances of GSP putting a tropical storm warning in the upstate in the 11 o’clock advisory?
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I think they should but they won’t. The reason I believe they should is because it appears right at rush hour gust will be 30-40 with heavy heavy rain. Ok that’s not safe getting kids to school. I drive my kids to school. Pickens and Greenville needs to at least delay. Regardless rush hour looks like a mess.
 
Jimmy Hypocracy said:
I was just wondering the same thing. I thought they were going to expand the warning earlier. Seems a little late in the game. People are asleep. My best guess is that they will not pull the trigger
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If the HRRR is right, then the northern upstate will see worse conditions than they thought.

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Haven't commented during the storm but have been reading. Many thanks to all for the great discussion and reports. Up here in far NE Forsyth County, we've experienced a couple of pretty good rain bands and we've gusted around 30 mph. Think it will get a little worse here in the next few hours, as the center works farther northeast and some of those stronger bands roll into the north and northeast metro area.

Everybody please stay safe. My prayers and thoughts to everybody impacted by this storm.

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Kylo said:
I saw NWS called for 2-3” across Atlanta. It sure looks like it could be more?
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KATL (airport) has measured near 2.5 inches of rain so far, we will definitely exceed 3 inches. They issued a Flood Warning for Fulton Co. until 5:15am Thur. morning.
 
GAC045-063-067-097-121-143-223-233-110915-
/O.NEW.KFFC.FA.W.0009.181011T0310Z-181011T0915Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
Paulding GA-Carroll GA-Cobb GA-Haralson GA-Douglas GA-Clayton GA-
Fulton GA-Polk GA-
1110 PM EDT WED OCT 10 2018

The National Weather Service in Peachtree City has issued a

* Flood Warning for...
Paulding County in northwestern Georgia...
Carroll County in northwestern Georgia...
Cobb County in north central Georgia...
Haralson County in northwestern Georgia...
Douglas County in north central Georgia...
Clayton County in north central Georgia...
Fulton County in north central Georgia...
Southern Polk County in northwestern Georgia...

* Until 515 AM EDT Thursday.

* At 1108 PM EDT, the public reported heavy rain and flooding in
west metro Atlanta. That heavy rain will cause flooding. Up to
three and a half inches of rain have already fallen.

Additional rainfall amounts of two to three inches are possible in
the warned area.


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Sounds about right. I am sitting at 3.71" now with some heavier bands getting ready to move in again. Some minor flooding already occurring and power outages in Douglasville this hour as the winds have gotten a bit gusty. Easily can see another 2-3" falling before it wraps up if these bands keep pushing through as the NWS stated.
 
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