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Thunderstorm Wind in Wheeler County, Georgia

Thunderstorm Wind April 8, 2020 · Wheeler County, Georgia

52 mph

Estimated gust (45 kt)

$2K

Damage as recorded

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

What the National Weather Service wrote

Tree reported down near the intersection of Hill Farm Road and Hwy 126.

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 Alamo (32.1800, -82.8100).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 891936. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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