Thunderstorm Wind, Burke
- When
- August 10, 8:37 PM EST
- Where
- Burke County, Girard
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Reported by
- POST OFFICE
- Coordinates
- 33.033, -81.717
Post Office reported trees down on Sweetwater road.
Damaging Wind in Georgia, August 10, 2001
1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Columbia, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 10, 6:32 PM EST, 2 hours 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 10, 6:32 PM EST, 2 hours 5 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 732 PM EDT FRI AUG 10 2001 AIRMASS MODERATELY UNSTABLE ACROSS AREA BUT NO SIGNIFICANT TRIGGER FOR CONVECTION THIS EVENING. A FEW STORMS MAY MOVE ACROSS A PORTION OF CSRA...SEA BREEZE ACTIVITY NIL. WILL UPDATE FORECAST AND LOWER POP TO 10. NO OTHER CHANGES. FCSTID = 19 CAE 75 93 73 91 / 10 40 40 40 AGS 74 94 72 92 / 10 40 40 40 SSC 75 93 73 91 / 10 40 40 40 OGB 75 93 73 91 / 10 40 40 40 .CAE... GA...NONE. SC...NONE. AWP
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 76 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:39 UTC.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Lightning Strike in Florida, August 10, 2001
- Flash Flood in Alabama, August 10, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Massachusetts, August 10, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Delaware, August 10, 2001
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strikes in Texas, August 10, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Virginia, August 10, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Florida, August 10, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Mississippi, August 10, 2001
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, August 10, 2001
- Flash Flood in Alabama, August 10, 2001
- Flash Flood in Mississippi, August 10, 2001
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, August 10, 2001
More
Every storm in Georgia in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Georgia, August 2001
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5260365.