Now at six, a live look at the
radar as our 11 Alive storm tras
track storms now beginning to
make their way out of our area.
And right now we are getting a k
at some of the damage left behi.
After gusty winds and rain,
we saw a damage near a school in
Grantville where crews were out
there working to clean it up.
There was a possible tornado
spotted in South Georgia.
It is a very big one.
This is the area of Blakely whih
is very close to the Alabama Ste
line and that is a big storm rit
there. The last tornado watch fr
parts of our area just expired
about 1/2 hour ago. We are keepg
an eye on every part of the meto
Atlanta area for you tonight as
these storms continue.
To move our Chief Meteorologist,
Chris Holcomb and Nicole Hartfod
are keeping an eye on the latest
updates from our storm tracker center.
Bobeth Gates is live in our Thur
truck to keep you up to date one
conditions out there on the roa.
And Karis Belger is live in Coweta County
where there are reports of dama.
But let's kick things off with s
and things are getting much quieter now.
Thank goodness.
We had that line of showers and storms
move through just a little bit earlier,
a radar a lot quieter.
Now these were moving very quickly to
about 60 or 70 miles an hour wi.
That at those individual
cells within that line,
we had scattered showers around Atlanta,
but we were mentioning yesterday
that we thought the highest risk
for those strongest storms would
be on the South side and that's
where most of those were today.
They have already cleared through Eatonton
and down toward the Upson County area.
Those storms now clearing past
Lake Sinclair at Milledgeville,
some showers down around Macon d
here South and West of the city.
It is beginning to clear out as well.
That's where we had some of the
stronger storms that did leave
behind some damage there in are.
Just to the South and West of u.
And now we're focusing on those storms
that are well down to the Southt
are not only still producing ra,
but we have severe thunderstorm warnings,
even a couple of tornado warnins
just to the South and also to
the east of Albany moving near
Tifton and near the Moultrie ar.
But that is moving out and thats
where they are going to stay,
continuing to push down to the South of us.
Let me take you right now to our storm
tracker, Thunder truck right no.
Bo Beth Yates was following that line of
showers and storms as it moved through.
Y'all are out of the rain.
Now,
but Bo Beth,
what were you experiencing in the drive down,
down 85 today?
Well, Chris, at times it was ve,
very scary in fact.
So we got on 85 heading South as
we did once we got through the y
first it was just very light ra.
But once we got through the city and headed,
started heading South passing Peachtree City,
the ranges started coming
down extremely heavy at times.
It was so heavy we could not
see in front of our windshield.
So it became very, very difficu.
Now what I want to talk about is though
the actual system like it was very quick.
You can see out right now it's super clear
but that is not what it looked .
But as quickly as that system ce
in as quickly as it went out.
Right now 85 the South is lookig
really good.
The traffic not backed up that h
but you can still see the rain.
But this morning we started offh
a 6.9 inch deficit and rain but.
Due to what we occurred occurred today,
we're back into the positives.
We've actually made it back to about 8:00.
We got .82 inches of rain bringg
us above our deficit just by abt
15 inches or .15 inches.
So we're looking really good
going back into the positives.
But again,
this was a very heavy system with rain
coming in very quickly as it moved in.
We were able to follow it coming
down 85 S and as we did at times
things were just so heavy.
But positive side is it's brougt
us out of the ring deficit and
back into the positives.
So we hope this will give us a
good coasting going into the
rest of June of course.
All right, Beau, Beth,
I'm glad to see that traffic is better now.
The road conditions are improvi,
but as those storms move throug,
we did get some damage from
hail and also some trees down.
Karis Belcher joins us now live
right now in the Grantville are.
I see the sun behind you,
but they're still dealing
with some damage cleanup.
They are. In fact, crews just lt
to go take care of some more cleanup.
Not far from here, Not too long,
there was a downed tree in the .
I'm going to step out so you can take a
look at what exactly crews were working on.
You can see just down the road ,
I'm not far from Glanson Elementary School.
See where that guardrail is dend
in and where those orange cones.
That's where crews were concentrating
all of their efforts.
And just take a look at this
video from earlier.
Police and emergency crews had
blocked off this road before,
so even though it's open now,
at one point traffic was not moving at all.
People just had to wait as
crews began to work.
But because there are power lines nearby,
they wanted to make sure that
no one got hurt and there was
no lingering damage from that.
And to talk about some of that
rain that caused all of this,
it came in very quickly and it
was very powerful.
I was driving through it myselfo
get to the to get to this locat.
And at one point I had to stop because
the rain was coming down very intensely.
I couldn't see right in front o.
So of course not the kind of thg
you want to drive through right.
Things are cleared up not just n
terms of that tree that was dow,
but also in terms of the weathe,
as you mentioned sun right behind me.
But we're going to continue to p
track of everything that's going on here.
All right, Kyras, thanks for that update.
We'll keep monitoring this system as it
moves to the South and much quieter tonight.
Still a chance overnight of a couple of
showers, but we don't think they'll be as
strong as what we had a little bit earlier.
We'll talk about whether or not these rain
chances diminish even more tomorrow and
into the weekend in just a few minutes.
All right, Chris, thank you.
And we want to remind everybody
that you can keep your eye on
the forecast wherever you may be
by downloading the 11 Alive app.
Every second counts.
One of these really difficult
weather situations of which
we have already seen today,
perhaps we will see tonight in
certain sections of our state s.