Big Rain Totals From Latest Rain

Submitted by Mike Francis, Chief Meteorologist

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2012, 10:28am

Lake Lanier is up BIG TIME for the latest rain event!! Sunday morning it was at a meager 1060.92' and today it is at 1062.42!!! Up a foot and a half. It has been since 2010 since we have seen increases like that! It seemed like the Dam area was main street for heavy rain producing t-storms as they lined up and wend over the same area over and over again. Hall county was under a flash flood warning until earlier this morning and as you can see from the video above, flooding was widespread! That video is from Mitchell Mintz in Lula, GA from before the train of storms set up.

Even the airport saw 2.30 inches of rain in a 36 hour period, but the heaviest rain fell in parts of Gwinnett and Hall last night with the parade of storms. Go to my facebook page and post your rainfall totals and I will use them tonight!

The rest of the week looks drier but there are more changes coming towards the weekend, details later this afternoon in the next blog update.

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Atlanta Weather | Severe Weather Update

Submitted by Mike Francis, Chief Meteorologist

Monday, October 1st, 2012, 9:54pm

TORNADO WATCH CANCELLED

The SPC has gone ahead and cancelled the tornado watch that was in effect for all of N Georgia. There are still storms out there tonight that I will continue to watch and if any changes occur I will let you know asap.

Mid Week Weather

Tomorrow and Wednesday will be cloudy and somewhat cool. Temps behind a cold front tomorrow will fall off into the mid 70's and there will be patchy areas of light drizzle. Temps will start to warm up towards the end of the week back into the upper 70's and lower 80's.

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Tornado watch cancelled for metro area

Submitted by Don Buckindail, Manager of Digital Content

Monday, October 1st, 2012, 9:45pm

ATLANTA -- Much of the Atlanta metro area was under a tornado watch until 9 p.m. on Monday evening.

Heavy rains pummeled the Atlanta area during the afternoon commute. Few counties reported structural damage however Georgia Power is reporting that up to 1250 households are still without power in metro Atlanta.

According to the National Weather Service, an area of low pressure moving northeast out of Mississippi and Alabama will drag a cold front through Georgia.

Heavy rain and embeded thunderstorms ahead of the front will produce strong winds, hail and possible tornadoes.

A tornado watch means that conditions are favorable for tornados to develop in the watch area.

When it's safe to go outside, send pictures of storms and damage to photos@11alive.com

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Atlanta Weather | Severe Weather Update

Submitted by Mike Francis, Chief Meteorologist

Monday, October 1st, 2012, 4:47pm

A tornado watch continues through 9pm for all of N Georgia. large hail, damaging winds, and the threat for isolated tornadoes exists in the tornado watch. We will continue to monitor.

I will be tracking storms and updating much more frequently during times of severe weather on my facebook page: MIKE'S FACEBOOK PAGE.

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Tornado Watch and Quick Radar Update

Submitted by Mike Francis, Chief Meteorologist

Monday, October 1st, 2012, 3:22pm

TORNADO WATCH

There is a tornado watch in effect until 9pm across a large part of the metro area this afternoon. The showers that have been affecting the metro area are just that, rain showers. There are no t-storms in the state at this time as you can you see below from the radar image, but we are watching a lone trying to develop in Alabama that will be moving into the area with the highest instability and atmospheric spin. The timing on this again will be from around 4pm - later tonight. We will continue to have updates on air and online as well.

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Tornado Watch Likely Within an Hour

Submitted by Mike Francis, Chief Meteorologist

Monday, October 1st, 2012, 1:56pm

The storms prediction is watching an area just to the west of the metro area for a possible tornado watch within the hour. There is a lot of instability building to the west and plenty of shear in the atmosphere to get storms once they go up rotating. The highest threat for the time being is in far western N Georgia and east Alabama, but that area of very warm air will be moving east towards the metro area later this afternoon.

Right now the highest region of instability is to the west in western counties where there has been some sunshine over the last few hours. If anything does pop it will be the far western counties that are affected first. I am thinking that when we do see storms they will be moving into the western sections of N Georgia later tonight around 4-6pm. We will continue to monitor!

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Severe Weather Chances Up This Afternoon

Submitted by Mike Francis, Chief Meteorologist

Monday, October 1st, 2012, 10:20am

Severe Weather Chances Up This Afternoon

The Situation

A powerful storm system coming from the SW is going to affect our weather later today by possibly giving us some severe storms. As of right the main threat will be damaging winds, large hail, and the possibility for isolated tornadoes as well. The area that I am honing in on appears to be in a line from Lagrange to Atlanta to Ellijay. Basically the entire N/NW N Georgia area later this afternoon. The timing on this system affecting us will start anywhere from around 1pm - 7pm and the be gone, until then we will continue to monitor for any changes.

The Setup