Heavy Rain in McDuffie County, Georgia
Heavy Rain September 11, 2017 – September 12, 2017 · McDuffie County, Georgia
Where the report was made, with tornadoes recorded within 15 miles over the years.
What the National Weather Service wrote
AWOS unit at Thomson McDuffie Co Airport measured a total of 5.37 inches of rain.
The wider storm
Irma made landfall in south Florida as a category 4 hurricane on Sunday, September 10th, then moved north up the Florida peninsula during the day and night while gradually weakening. Irma weakened to Tropical Storm status while over north Florida Monday morning September 11th, and shifted NW over SW Georgia and into Alabama through Monday night while weakening to a Depression. Copious rainfall amounts associated with the cyclone occurred across the Central Savannah River Area (CSRA) of GA and the Midlands of SC, which generally fell from late Sunday night, through Monday and Monday night the 11th, and into the early morning hours of Tuesday the 12th. In addition, the pressure gradient between the cyclone to our SW, and high pressure to our north, provided strong wind gusts over the region as well which downed numerous trees. The strongest wind gusts occurred Monday afternoon Sept 11th.
Began near Thmson Mcduffee Arpt (33.5300, -82.5200).
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 723164. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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