{"id":221769,"date":"2025-05-12T08:31:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T12:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=221769"},"modified":"2025-05-12T08:31:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T12:31:39","slug":"severe-storms-could-hit-georgia-today-bringing-tornado-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=221769","title":{"rendered":"Severe Storms Could Hit Georgia Today, Bringing Tornado Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Georgians should prepare for potentially severe weather today as thunderstorms threaten parts of north and central Georgia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83c\udf29\ufe0f <strong>Why It Matters:<\/strong> These storms could disrupt travel, damage property, and create dangerous conditions for residents across dozens of counties throughout the day and evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83c\udf2a\ufe0f <strong>What&#8217;s Happening:<\/strong> The National Weather Service warns that damaging wind gusts pose the main threat, but brief tornadoes and hail remain possible in stronger storm cells.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The severe weather threat spans a massive area including metro <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"\/city\/Atlanta\"   title=\"Atlanta\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"1493\">Atlanta<\/a>, Macon, Columbus and numerous rural communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udca7 <strong>Between the Lines:<\/strong> Flooding concerns continue today after recent rainfall has saturated the ground in many areas, making flash flooding more likely with any heavy downpours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udd2e <strong>Looking Ahead:<\/strong> More storms will develop Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons, with additional thunderstorm activity possible this weekend, suggesting an active weather pattern will persist across Georgia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n[mailerlite_form form_id=5]\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgians should prepare for potentially severe weather today as thunderstorms threaten parts of north and central Georgia. \ud83c\udf29\ufe0f Why It Matters: These storms could disrupt travel, damage property, and create dangerous conditions for residents across dozens of counties throughout the day and evening. \ud83c\udf2a\ufe0f What&#8217;s Happening: The National Weather Service warns that damaging wind gusts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":948,"featured_media":221778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6067],"tags":[16836,12611,9640,9504],"class_list":["post-221769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weather","tag-current","tag-storm","tag-storms","tag-tornado","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=221769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=221769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}