Thunderstorm Wind — Appling, Georgia

2022-01-02 · near Baxley, Appling, Georgia

Event narrative

A couple of trees were blown down near Ricardo Street and along County Farm Road. The time of damage was based on radar.

Wider weather episode

A potent shortwave became negatively tilted and dug east across the deep south which drove a strong cold front across the local area during the late afternoon and early evening hours. Strong to severe thunderstorms consolidated into a squall line that moved from western inland SE GA and the Suwannee valley east-southeast through the

I-10 and I-75 corridors to the Atlantic coast through midnight. A very strong low level jet of 50-60 knots with CAPE of at least 500 J/kg to brought some damaging wind gusts of across SE GA.

View location on OpenStreetMap → (31.7500, -82.3500)

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 997515. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.