Tropical Storm — Jeff Davis, Georgia

2024-08-04 to 2024-08-06 · Jeff Davis, Georgia

Event narrative

Flash flooding occurred county wide with the most washed out roadways being dirt roads. Two swift water rescues were required, the first an individual whose car was swept off an asphalt county road and the second was a woman who drove around barriers into a flooded dirt road. One of these rescues was along Towns Bluff Road on Tuesday morning, 8/6. One structure flooded in the City of Hazlehurst in a known flooding trouble area. School was closed for several days until sanitation facilities and dirt roads were brought back online. 4.54 inches of rainfall was measured by an AWOS site at Hazlehurst Airport (KAZE) during Debby. AWOS station Hazlehurst Airport (KAZE) also gusted to 41 mph.

Wider weather episode

Hurricane Debby made landfall as a Category 1 storm along the FL Big Bend coast during the early morning of August 5, 2024. Prior to landfall, outer convective bands produced tornadoes across portions of northeast Florida on August 4th. Widespread flooding moved inland with Debby across the Suwannee River Valley and inland Southeast Georgia where flash flooding and moderate to major river flooding occurred.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1198851. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.