Thunderstorm Wind — Charlton, Georgia

2016-07-17 · near Uptonville, Charlton, Georgia

Event narrative

Power lines were blown down along Old US Highway 1.

Wider weather episode

Mean layer ridge axis was across the local area with a light easterly steering flow in place. This pattern focused the highest diurnally driven sea breeze and outflow boundary triggered storms along the I-75 corridor in the late afternoon and evening.

View location on OpenStreetMap → (30.8800, -82.0500)

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 648196. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.