The National Weather Service and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued a Hazardous Weather Outlook for North and Central Georgia. Ty Vaughn, a NWS meteorologist in Peachtree City, told GPB,

We will fine tune the timing of the rain as the system gets closer. As of Thursday, it looks like the rain will arrive in the western counties of the First Coast early Sunday morning, before progressing eastward toward and through the Jacksonville Metro Area after lunchtime and into the afternoon and evening hours.