Flood warning for Oconee River

After the rains of the past three days, there is a flood warning for the Oconee River near Penfield, affecting parts of Clarke, Oconee, and Greene counties. The National Weather Service says the flood warning is in effect through tomorrow morning. 

From the National Weather Service…

...The Flood Warning continues for the following rivers in Georgia...

Oconee River near Penfield affecting Clarke...Greene and Oconee

Counties

...Flood Warning extended until Thursday morning...The Flood Warning

continues for

The Oconee River near Penfield.

* Until Thursday morning.

* At 9PM Tuesday the stage was 13.2 feet...and rising.

* Minor flooding is occurring and Minor flooding is forecast.

* Flood stage is 13.0 feet.

* The river will continue rising to near 13.3 feet by after midnight

tomorrow. The river will fall below flood stage early Thursday

morning.

* At 13.0 feet...Flood Stage is reached. Minor flooding occurs along

the river upstream and downstream from the gage on the Georgia

Highway 15 bridge. The right bank begins to overflow into

agricultural land and pastures with a foot or two of water.