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Severe 3/27-3/31 2025 Severe

Incoming here in Savannah area:

.A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT BEAUFORT...LIBERTY

EFFINGHAM...JASPER...MCINTOSH...BRYAN...CHATHAM...TATTNALL...BULLOCH
AND LONG COUNTIES UNTIL 6 PM EDT...

AT 535 PM EDT, DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A LINE OF STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM OVER STILLWELL TO 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
DONALD, MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

HAZARD...WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH AND PENNY SIZE HAIL.

SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.

IMPACT...GUSTY WINDS COULD KNOCK DOWN TREE LIMBS AND BLOW AROUND
UNSECURED OBJECTS. MINOR DAMAGE TO OUTDOOR OBJECTS IS POSSIBLE.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, HINESVILLE, POOLER, BLUFFTON, RICHMOND HILL,
TYBEE ISLAND, SPRINGFIELD, PEMBROKE, DARIEN AND LUDOWICI.

THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING HIGHWAYS...
I-16 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 140 AND 168.
I-95 IN GEORGIA NEAR MILE MARKER 50...AND
BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 47 AND 49...AND
BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 51 AND 112.
I-95 IN SOUTH CAROLINA BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 2 AND 14.
I-516 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 3 AND 9.
 
Nice surprise this has actually pushed out the marine layer. Radar presentation looks much more robust than ground truth but we'll still wind up with maybe .3" or .35" all said and done.
 
Not sure much of anything of interest happened (although it did look nasty and dark-ish outside when I could look at work), but I did find that a truck spun out into the ditch on the highway home.

But now that I type this, I'm looking and there was some minor storm damage (so something did happen ha). There were a few powerlines down and minor flooding on the interstate at one spot.
 
lcpdk said:
Not even a quarter inch of rain here in eastern Forsyth County NC and we need rain badly. My cat did get caught in a downpour though, so the house smells like wet pet.
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Severe outbreaks ain't what they used to be.
 
tractor girl said:
Agree.. things look way worse in model data (even high res models) and like clockwork, once fronts reach GA they fizzle out for the most part.

Meteorologically speaking, why is that?
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You would think it has a lot to do with the mountains and the way severe systems are oriented SW to NE
 
Unfortunately my area had severe wx yesterday ~6PM when the line came through despite no actual severe thunderstorm warning (though there was a SWS for strong thunderstorms as I posted as well as nearby warnings):

0547 PM TSTM WND DMG 1 NW MEINHARD 32.19N 81.22W
03/31/2025 CHATHAM GA EMERGENCY MNGR

TREE DOWN AT BENTON BLVD AND STATE HWY 30. TIME
ESTIMATED FROM RADAR AND OBSERVATIONS.
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0608 PM TSTM WND DMG WILMINGTON ISLAND 32.00N 80.99W
03/31/2025 CHATHAM GA EMERGENCY MNGR

POWER LINES DOWN AT N. CROMWELL/LANDON LANE. ANOTHER
ONE ALSO DOWN AT 400 BLOCK OF FORREST AVE. TIME
ESTIMATED FROM RADAR.
 
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tractor girl said:
Agree.. things look way worse in model data (even high res models) and like clockwork, once fronts reach GA they fizzle out for the most part.

Meteorologically speaking, why is that?
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I don't know, TBH. I posted on X about it the other day, but maybe it's possible that the dynamics typically at place send prefrontal convection out ahead and work the atmosphere in regions close to the mountains. Obviously, the mountains are a disrupting agent also. We get a lot of systems moving through at night too. I can't really see a meteorological reason for that, though.
 
Rain Cold said:
I don't know, TBH. I posted on X about it the other day, but maybe it's possible that the dynamics typically at place send prefrontal convection out ahead and work the atmosphere in regions close to the mountains. Obviously, the mountains are a disrupting agent also. We get a lot of systems moving through at night too. I can't really see a meteorological reason for that, though.
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I don't think North GA has had a major tornado event since March 2012 when a couple of supercells came out of Alabama. Those same general areas also got hit in 2011 and 1994 too. The 1994 storms hit Oconee County SC very hard and one of them hit the NW side of Charlotte too, I think.

Of course, Newnan got hit a couple of years ago, but that was only 1 tornado, I think.
 
JHS said:
I don't think North GA has had a major tornado event since March 2012 when a couple of supercells came out of Alabama. Those same general areas also got hit in 2011 and 1994 too. The 1994 storms hit Oconee County SC very hard and one of them hit the NW side of Charlotte too, I think.

Of course, Newnan got hit a couple of years ago, but that was only 1 tornado, I think.
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This is incorrect! my house was hit by a EF1 or forming EF-1 on 4-12-2020! That storm tore up parts of Ft. Oglethorpe and became a major in Tn.!
 
Wulfer said:
This is incorrect! my house was hit by a EF1 or forming EF-1 on 4-12-2020! That storm tore up parts of Ft. Oglethorpe and became a major in Tn.!
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That is only one tornado though. I was thinking more about tornado outbreaks like March 2012, March 1994 and April 2011. Those featured multiple tornados, some of them F2+.
 
JHS said:
I don't think North GA has had a major tornado event since March 2012 when a couple of supercells came out of Alabama. Those same general areas also got hit in 2011 and 1994 too. The 1994 storms hit Oconee County SC very hard and one of them hit the NW side of Charlotte too, I think.

Of course, Newnan got hit a couple of years ago, but that was only 1 tornado, I think.
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I can’t think of any major events in North GA in the last 10 years. Newnan is not really North GA so I don’t count them.
 
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