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The National Weather Service in Atlanta has issued flood watches and important updates for Georgia regarding Tropical Storm Helene, which is expected to impact north and central Georgia from ...
The River reached its second-highest level ever in Vinings at Paces Ferry Road, and would have surpassed its 1916 record were it not for the impoundment built in the 1950s. Along the river in both Vinings and Roswell , a one percent chance exceedence ( 100-year flood ) level was measured.
It is a tributary of the Chattahoochee River, and near its end it is the centerpiece of Sweetwater Creek State Park. Sweetwater Creek was named after AmaKanasta (Sweet Water), a Cherokee chieftain. [2] Since 1904 there has been a stream gauge near Austell (actually in Lithia Springs), at latitude 33°46'22"N, longitude 84°36'53"W.
It is at latitude 34°31'41"N, longitude 83°56'23"W, at 1,128.6 feet (344.0 m) above mean sea level. The watershed area above this point is 153 square miles (400 km 2). The National Weather Service has set a flood stage for this gauge of 19 feet (5.8 m). The highest level ever recorded was in 1967, at 25.17 feet (7.67 m) on August 23.
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Numerous tributaries also swelled far over and beyond their banks. These were the highest water levels seen since 1990, and the second-highest ever since the large Buford Dam was built upstream. The National Weather Service in Peachtree City estimated that this was a 500-year flood event.
The 2009 Atlanta floods were called "of historic proportions" by the local National Weather Service forecast office (NWSFO Peachtree City). Noonday Creek at Shallowford Road crested at 19.66 feet (5.99 m), with a peak flow literally off the chart, extrapolated to be about 10,000 cubic feet (280 m 3 ) per second, compared to an average of 68.