Thunderstorm Wind — Decatur, Georgia

2024-01-09 · near Hanover, Decatur, Georgia

Event narrative

A mobile home was tilted over at about a 30 degree angle off its blocks.

Wider weather episode

A high impact severe weather event impacted the tri-state region on January 9th with supercells producing tornadoes, large hail, and damaging wind gusts, followed by a major squall line with widespread wind damage and additional tornadoes. Preceding this activity, very strong non-thunderstorm wind gusts of 40-60 mph occurred, with even a gust to 70 mph at the Albany airport. There were 14 tornadoes confirmed across the tri-state region, including 3 EF0s, 5 EF1s, 5 EF2s, and 1 EF3. This activity was driven by a deepening area of low pressure west of the region with a record strong low level jet crossing the region. The winds at 850 mb were in in the 65-80 knot range, and sufficient instability existed to support mixing some of these very strong environmental winds to the surface.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1149930. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.