EF0 Tornado — Glynn, Georgia

2023-08-30 · near Pyles Marsh, Glynn, Georgia

9.8 mi

Path length

50 yds

Path width

Event narrative

NWS Survey team found evidence of a weak tornado yesterday in southern Glynn

county. This tornado was spawned by outer rain bands from Hurricane Idalia.

This particular tornado began just south of Highway 17 and crossed the highway

around Fancy Bluff with mostly tree damage and downed powerlines, traversing

the area from southeast to northwest. It then crossed through Emanuel

Church Road with tree limbs downed, then shifted a bit more west-northwest

toward Georgetown and near Bladen where large tree branches were downed.

The tree damage supports damage rating of an EF-0 rating with maximum winds

near 70 mph.

Hurricane Idalia made landfall Wednesday morning August 30th around 745 AM EDT along the

Florida Big Bend near Keaton Beach as a category 3, with the inner core moving NE across the

Suwannee River Valley. The inner wind core of Idalia gradually weakened through the morning while,

heavily impacting Suwannee and Hamilton counties in NE Florida and Echols county SE Georgia as the

circulation tracked NE. Widespread tree, power line and structure damage occurred across Suwannee

and Hamilton counties, with estimated winds of 80-100 mph based on damage surveys with isolated

pockets of peak wind gusts near major hurricane strength. Outer rainbands on the eastside of Idalia

impacted all of SE Georgia and NE FL through the day, with early morning tornadoes across coastal SE

Georgia and widespread tropical cyclone wind gusts through the day causing tree damage and power

line damage at least somewhere across NE Florida and SE Georgia. Measured gusts during the peak of

the hurricane acorss the local forecast area were 60-80 mph. Flooding rainfall impacted locations in

the direct path of the weakening inner core across the Suwannee River Valley and southeast Georgia,

especially from eastern Hamilton county toward Baxley and Jesup GA. The peak rainfall amounts were

up to 5-8 inches. At least 3 tornadoes occurred in southeast GA as rainbands swept northwestward

ahead of the hurricane.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1127554. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.