PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
220 PM EDT WED JUL 02 2003

    ...RAINFALL TOTALS ASSOCIATED WITH TROPICAL STORM BILL...

TOTAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS ASSOCIATED WITH TROPICAL STORM BILL VARIED 
GREATLY ACROSS GEORGIA.  THE LOWEST AMOUNTS OF RAINFALL WERE 
REPORTED IN SOUTH GEORGIA AND ALONG THE COASTAL AREAS.  THESE LOCATIONS 
AVERAGED THREE QUARTERS OF AN INCH OR LESS.  HOWEVER NORTH AND 
NORTHWEST SECTIONS OF THE STATE HAD THE MOST SIGNIFICANT RAINFALL 
TOTALS.  
  
AREAS JUST WEST OF ATLANTA FROM NEAR DOUGLASVILLE NORTHWARDS TO 
CHATSWORTH AVERAGED 3.50-5.50 INCHES.  THE HIGHEST STORM TOTAL FROM 
TROPICAL STORM BILL WAS 7.10 INCHES AT MONROE IN WALTON COUNTY...  
WHICH IS LOCATED ABOUT MIDWAY BETWEEN ATLANTA AND ATHENS.

SOME OF THE OTHER LARGER AMOUNTS RECIEVED WERE 6.60 INCHES IN SAUTEE 
AND 6.40 INCHES IN HELEN...BOTH LOCATED IN WHITE COUNTY.  

IN THE NORTH ATLANTA SUBURBS...ALPHARETTA REPORTED 5.85 INCHES.  

ALONG THE NORTH GEORGIA BORDER IN FANNIN COUNTY...MINERAL BLUFF 
REPORTED 5.50 INCHES.

ALONG I-20 EAST OF ATLANTA...SILOAM REPORTED 5.30 INCHES AND 
COVINGTON HAD 4.68 INCHES.

SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST OF ATLANTA...TALBOTTON HAD 5.04 INCHES AND 
JACKSON DAM HAD 4.54 INCHES.