Lightning — Glascock, Georgia

2007-07-01 · near Gibson, Glascock, Georgia

Event narrative

The Glascock County Emergency Management Director reported that two house fires were started as a result of lightning strikes. Damage estimates were indeterminate.

Wider weather episode

A stationary front near the Georgia/Tennessee line and northwest flow aloft combined with a moist and unstable air mass to produce widespread thunderstorms during the afternoon and evening. Several of these became severe producing hail and damaging downburst winds.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 47821. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.