Tropical Storm — Coastal Glynn, Georgia

2012-05-27 · Coastal Glynn, Georgia

Event narrative

The St. Simons island ASOS measured a wind gust to 43 mph.

Wider weather episode

Tropical Storm Beryl moved onshore on the northeast Florida coast the night of Sunday May 27th...and moved slowly inland across north Florida Monday the 28th and on the 29th began to recurve to the northeast over south Georgia. Tropical storm force winds caused tree and power line damage mainly impacting coast counties late on the 27th and during the early morning hours of the 28th. The strongest winds measured was a 73 mph gust at 10:35 pm on the 27th at Buck Island on the St. Johns River, just west of Mayport. On the 28th and 29th, as Beryl tracked slowly over north Florida and south Georgia, flooding rainfall developed with storm total rainfall amounts of 6 to 15 inches reported across northeast Florida and southeast Georgia.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 388451. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.