Tropical Storm — Coastal Glynn, Georgia

2024-09-26 to 2024-09-28 · Coastal Glynn, Georgia

Event narrative

Widespread trees and power lines were blown down across the county. Multiple uprooted trees caused damage to power lines, cars and homes. Over 36000 without power as of early Friday morning (27th). A couple of gas station canopies either collapsed or were knocked over in Brunswick.

On 9/26 at 11:15 am, a mesonet site on Jekyll Island measured a wind gust of 44 mph. On 9/27 at 12:22 am, a mesonet station on Jekyll Island measured a wind gust of 69 mph. At 1:52 am, the site measured a wind gust of 78 mph from the SE. At 2:15 am, the ASOS KSSI on St. Simons at the McKinnon Airport measured a wind gust of 68 mph from the SE.

Wider weather episode

Hurricane Helene made landfall as a category 4 with peak winds of near 140 mph in the Florida Big

Bend just east of the Aucilla River Entrance in Taylor County, late Thursday evening September 26,

2024. Helene's main impact to southeast Georgia and northeast Florida was wind damage as it

tracked quickly north-northeast. The very powerful hurricane and the forward motion produced a

wide swath of wind damage across the forecast area with peak wind gusts 55 to 75 mph across the

eastern half of the area, and western zones up to 75 to 100 mph from the Suwannee Valley area

northward through interior southeast GA. The max wind gust of 100 mph was measured at the Alma

GA ASOS in the early morning hours of Friday September 27th. Given the strength of these winds,

widespread power outages, structure damage and downed or uprooted trees occurred across inland

southeast GA and portions of northeast FL. At least 1 tornado occurred, which was in Coffee county.

Maximum rainfall amounts of 3 to 5 inches were located over western half of the area.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1217252. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.