ATLANTA — 3:56 p.m. - Severe Thunderstorm Warning for Fannin, Towns, and Union County until 5:00 p.m.
3:53 p.m. - Four active severe thunderstorm warnings in North Georgia, including a new warning in parts of Gordon, Floyd, Whitfield, and Walker counties.
3:50 p.m. - Severe Thunderstorm Warning for Floyd and Gordon County until 4:30 p.m.
3:48 p.m. - Severe Thunderstorm Warning for Gilmer County until 4:30 p.m.
3:14 p.m. - Severe Thunderstorm Warning for Gilmer County until 4 p.m.
2:44 p.m. - A new Severe Thunderstorm Warning has been issued for more of Gilmer and Pickens counties until 3:15 p.m.
2:30 p.m. - A Severe Thunderstorm Warning was issued for Dawson, Fannin, Gilmer, Lumpkin and Union counties until 3:15 p.m.
Severe Weather Team 2 Chief Meteorologist Brad Nitz is tracking storms across parts of north Georgia and the metro Atlanta area.
A Severe Thunderstorm Watch was issued by the National Weather Service until 9 p.m.
Nitz says the main danger is the chance of strong wind gusts developing, possibly as fast as 60 mph or more, and large hail, possibly measuring an inch.
The National Weather Service says counties in the watch include:
Central Georgia:
Butts County.
North Central Georgia:
Barrow, Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, Dawson, DeKalb, Douglas, Fannin, Fayette, Forsyth, Fulton, Gilmer, Gwinnett, Hall, Henry, Lumpkin, Newton, Pickens, Rockdale, Union and Walton counties.
Northeast Georgia:
Banks, Jackson, Towns and White counties.
Northwest Georgia:
Bartow, Carrol, Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Floyd, Gordon, Haralson, Murray, Paulding, Polk, Walker and Whitfield counties.
West Central Georgia:
Coweta, Heard, Meriwether, Spalding and Troup counties.
The watch also includes the cities of Atlanta, Blairsville, Blue Ridge, Bremen, Calhoun, Carrollton, Cartersville, Cedartown, Chatsworth, Cleveland, Cohutta Wilderness, Colwell, Commerce, Conyers, Covington, Cumming, Dahlonega, Dallas, Dalton, Dawsonville, Decatur, Dial, Douglasville, Ellijay, Epworth, Fort Oglethorpe, Franklin, Gainesville, Griffin, Hemp, Hiawassee, Higdon, Homer, Jackson, Jasper, Lafayette, Lawrenceville, Manchester, Marietta, Monroe, Newnan, Peachtree City, Riverdale, Rome, Stockbridge, Summerville, Trenton, West Point, Winder and Woodstock.
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