UPDATE 3:

Here’s some additional photos from Seaborn Jones Park this afternoon:

Also, many of the major outages that impacted Polk County this evening have been cleared up by Georgia Power, and but hundreds of customers are still going to bed tonight without electricity restored.

Most of the area around Bellview Church stretching from Old Collard Valley Road down to Bellview Road, and as far west as Pine Mountain Road remain without power tonight. That’s at least 300 customers disconnected for the time being.

Additionally, power has yet to be restored to 81 customers around Coaling and Hutto Roads, and 98 customers around the Antioch Area on Lee’s Chapel, Woodall and Campbell Roads are without current as well.

Minor outages are widespread throughout Polk following stormy weather that moved through this afternoon and during the evening hours. Those storms have now pushed into south and coastal Georgia, where they are causing power outages from Savannah to Columbus, and down as far as Camilla and Brunswick.

Metro Atlanta was hit with multiple outages and storm damage due to the impact of today’s thunderstorms.

Polk County will likely see more of the same tomorrow, as the NWS calls for heat and chances for afternoon and evening thunderstorms. Temperatures are up to 96 for Monday, with a heat index up to 101. There’s a 20% chance of showers and thunderstorms during the day, increasing to 40% overnight with a low of 68 expected.

Polk and Northwest Georgia remain in a Level 2 severe weather watch area for Monday.

UPDATE 2:

More than 3,000 customers are without power this evening in Polk County as storms passed through the area.

Over 950 customers from western Polk County to Taylorsville in spots in between are without power this evening according to the Georgia Power Outage Map.

The largest outage is in a box as far north as Dean Road and down to Highway 278 at Barber and Airport Roads, and crosses Collar Valley from Aragon to the Pine Mountain area.

Another major power outage has impacted the Aragon area, with more than 800 customers without electricity at the moment. Around 100 are without power off of (edit) Coaling Road east of Cedartown.

Additional power outages are impacting more than two dozen customers in the Lake Creek Road area near the Floyd County line, and the Doyle Road area in southern Floyd County immediately in the Polk area.

UPDATE:

Stormy weather is leaving some destruction behind in Polk County this afternoon and evening, with trees going down and damaging houses.

Polk County Emergency Management Agency Coordinator Landon Hendrix reported that trees have gone down around Polk County and damaged at least one residence. Due to the immediate threat of weather moving into the area now, more details weren’t immediately available.

Check back for more details as they become available.

Previously posted:

Seaborn Jones Park and the area around downtown Rockmart was inundated with rainfall on Sunday afternoon, and the stormy weather continues through the rest of the evening in Polk County per the National Weather Service forecast.

Polk remains under a severe thunderstorm watch through 9 p.m., and severe thunderstorm warnings have come and gone in recent hours this afternoon as heavy rain, wind and lightning persist through until the evening hours, per the forecast.

Chances for thunderstorms remain at 40% per the NWS Peachtree City office’s forecast, but with as much wet weather as has moved through the area, one can expect it with a large line of storms moving through Northwest Georgia as far down to Carroll County along the Alabama state line.

The line of storms will produce serious lightning and thunder, and could bring more than a quarter inch of rain to localized areas.

Be advised of the potential for flash flooding.

Several groups in the park on Sunday afternoon during the first round of afternoon storms were forced to take cover and wait out a severe thunderstorm that moved through the Rockmart area. The park flooded, and fortunately no one was injured at the time.

Check back for additional weather updates as need through the rest of the evening.