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Thunderstorm Wind in Macon County, Georgia

Thunderstorm Wind April 8, 2020 · Macon County, Georgia

46 mph

Estimated gust (40 kt)

$1K

Damage as recorded

Where the report was made, with tornadoes recorded within 15 miles over the years.

What the National Weather Service wrote

One tree was reported down on Hoke Smith Avenue in Ideal.

The wider storm

A well-developed storm system moving across the Midwest and northern Tennessee Valley regions brought scattered strong to severe thunderstorms to north and central Georgia from the afternoon of the 8th into the early morning hours of the 9th. SPC had much of the area in a SLIGHT risk for severe weather with an ENHANCED risk for severe weather just to our north and west, across nearly all of Tennessee, Kentucky, eastern Missouri, southern Illinois and southern Indiana.

Began near Ideal (32.3700, -84.1900).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 891930. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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