Thunderstorm Wind — Barrow, Georgia

2018-06-28 · near Auburn, Barrow, Georgia

Event narrative

The Barrow County Emergency Manager reported numerous trees down across the county from Auburn to Winder, Bethlehem and Statham.

Wider weather episode

Thunderstorms, associated with another in a series of short waves traversing the region in a persistent northwesterly upper-level flow pattern resulted in widespread reports of damaging wind gusts across north Georgia through the morning hours and into central Georgia during the afternoon. Isolated flash flooding resulted from high rainfall rates and training storms.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 764913. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.