Strong Wind — Haralson, Georgia

2017-10-08 · Haralson, Georgia

Event narrative

The Haralson County Emergency Manager reported a large tree blown down onto a building on Head Avenue in Tallapoosa. One injury was reported.

Wider weather episode

On the morning of October 4th a tropical depression developed off the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua, moving northwest. The depression intensified to become Tropical Storm Nate by the early morning hours of October 5th as it crossed northeast Nicaragua and eastern Honduras. The tropical storm continued to move north northwest and continued to strengthen, reaching hurricane strength during the late evening of October 6th as it moved into the southern Gulf of Mexico. The fast moving hurricane made landfall on the southeastern tip of Louisiana and again on the Mississippi gulf coast late in the evening of October 7th, turning toward the north northeast. Hurricane Nate continued moving rapidly northeast, weakening to a tropical storm across southern Mississippi and then to a tropical depression across southwest Alabama during the morning of October 8th. As Tropical Depression Nate swept quickly northeast across Alabama through the day and into the evening of the 8th, scattered reports of wind damage were received from across west central and north Georgia.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 721176. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.