Thunderstorm Wind, Stephens
- When
- August 31, 2:56 PM EST
- Where
- Stephens County, Toccoa
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 34.583, -83.317
Trees and power lines down across the city.
Damaging Wind in Georgia, August 31, 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 Greenville-Spartanburg, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 31, 2:45 PM EST, 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 31, 2:45 PM EST, 11 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 345 PM EDT FRI AUG 31 2001 VORT MAX IN WSW FLOW PRESENTLY PUSHING CONVECTION ACROSS THE AREA...WITH UPSTREAM STRONGER SHORTWAVE OVER ARKLATEX SCHEDULED TO ARRIVE LATER TONIGHT COINCIDENT WITH INCREASING SUPPORT FROM THE UPPER JET ENTRANCE REGION. TIME SECTIONS ARE SATURATED THROUGH THE COLUMN...SO PRECIP SHOULD BE WIDESPREAD OVER MOUNTAINS WITH DECENT COVERAGE EXTENDING INTO PIEDMONT. MODELS STILL LACK AGREEMENT ON FRONTAL TIMING...BUT TREND IS TOWARD SYSTEM STALLING ACROSS THE CAROLINAS BY SATURDAY NIGHT. DEEPENING CUTOFF LOW OVER THE MS VALLEY BY SUN NIGHT SHOULD SEND RETURN FLOW WITH MOISTURE BACK OVER THE BOUNDARY. SPECTRAL RUNS FROM LAST NIGHT APPEARED TO HAVE THE BOUNDARY TOO FAR S BY SUNDAY WITH TOO MUCH DEEP LAYER DRYING OVER THE CAROLINAS. LATEST RUNS ALONG WITH EXTENDED ENSEMBLES POINTING TOWARD MUCH MORE PRECIP IN DYNAMICS AHEAD OF THE DEVELOPING LOW FOR SUN NIGHT INTO MON. WILL KEEP THE EARLY EXTENDED WETTER AND COOLER THAN MEX MOS. FCSTID = 33 GSP 70 82 67 82 / 60 60 40 30 AND 70 82 67 82 / 60 60 40 30 CLT 70 82 64 81 / 60 50 30 20 HKY 68 78 62 78 / 60 50 30 20 AVL 65 77 62 78 / 80 60 40 30 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. HG
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 106 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:55 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
- Flash Flooding in Texas, August 31, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Texas, August 31, 2001
- Tornado in Alabama, August 31, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Texas, August 31, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New York, August 31, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Wind in Texas, August 31, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Texas, August 31, 2001
- Flash Flood in Louisiana, August 31, 2001
- Lightning Strike in New York, August 31, 2001
- Damaging Winds in New York, August 31, 2001
- Flash Flood in Alabama, August 31, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, August 31, 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: 5266659.