Event narrative (NOAA)
Record and in some cases catastrophic, flooding continued to expand across the northern and western portions of the Atlanta metropolitan area as renewed rounds of showers and thunderstorms with very heavy rain tracked repeatedly over the same areas throughout the day. Portions of hundreds of roads in the county were closed from flooding and washed out bridges and/or culverts. Even the Downtown Connector, Interstate-75/85, was closed for several hours because of flooding causing major traffic backups in the area. Hundreds of homes, apartments, and businesses sustained significant flood damage. Record flooding was occurring on Peachtree Creek and Nancy Creek in the north part of Atlanta. A significant water treatment plant for the city of Atlanta was destroyed by flooding, with damage t
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Source: NOAA/NCEI Storm Events Database. Deaths and injuries are those NOAA classifies as direct. Damage is the reporting office's estimate at the time and is not inflation-adjusted. This is a catalogue record, not a forecast.