Hail — Gwinnett, Georgia

2008-07-22 · near Dacula, Gwinnett, Georgia

Event narrative

Local Atlanta television stations relayed a report of golf ball-sized hail in the Dacula area. Several reports of penny-sized hail were received from the public in the Dacula area. The hail lasted several minutes at some locations. Radar data indicated that this was one of the strongest storms of the day and persisted in the same area for up to 30 minutes. Penny-sized hail was also reported just northwest of Lawrenceville, but this appeared to have been a different thunderstorm cell. In addition, several reports of three to over four inches of rain were received from the Ducula area with this storm.

Wider weather episode

An upper low continued to deepen across the northeast U.S. and was digging southward into the southeast United States A strong cold front was moving south from the Ohio Valley toward the southeast United States. Scattered to numerous showers and thunderstorms developed in Alabama during the early afternoon and expanded and spread eastward into western Georgia during the mid-afternoon. Many of these storms produced damaging wind and large hail. An expansive outflow boundary spread eastward across the state in advance of the thunderstorms causing additional thunderstorms to develop further eastward. However, thunderstorms decreased in coverage as they spread further east and all of the activity had ended by 10 pm EDT.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 127770. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.