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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.
The episode as NWS FFC wrote it up.
An unusually strong upper low, located over the northeast U.S. continued to dig southward into the eastern U.S. This was pushing an unusually strong cold front southward through north and central Georgia. While surface moisture was limited, sufficient moisture and instability was available during the afternoon peak heating hours for showers and thunderstorms to develop across eastern Alabama and move into west central Georgia. A couple of these briefly became severe and produced damaging downburst winds.
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 Atlanta, GA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 17, 1:46 PM EST, 1 hour 44 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 246 PM EDT TUE JUN 17 2008 .SHORT TERM /TONIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT/... WEAK COLD FRONT CURRENTLY PUSHING THROUGH NORTH GEORGIA SHOULD CONTINUE ITS SOUTHWARD MARCH OVERNIGHT. DRIER AIRMASS SHOULD BE IN PLACE OVER NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY WITH VERY MILD OVERNIGHT LOWS EXPECTED FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF NIGHTS. WITH PERSISTENT NORTHWESTERLY UPPER LEVEL FLOW THROUGH THIS FORECAST PERIOD AND NO MAJOR SHORTWAVES FORECAST TO RIDE THIS FLOW INTO THE REGION...THE SHORT TERM FORECAST PERIOD LOOKS MOSTLY DRY. ANOTHER WEAK SURFACE TROUGH APPROACHES LATE THURSDAY WHICH MAY BRING SOME RAIN CHANCES BACK INTO FAR NORTH GEORGIA THURSDAY NIGHT. .LONG TERM /FRIDAY THROUGH TUESDAY/... BASIC UPPER LEVEL PATTERN RELATIVELY UNCHANGED AS WE BEGIN THE EXTENDED FORECAST PERIOD WITH WESTERN RIDGE AND EASTERN TROUGH FIRMLY IN PLACE. GFS SHIFTS THIS PATTERN BACK A LITTLE TO THE WEST AS WE HEAD INTO THE WEEKEND WITH THE EASTERN TROUGH AXIS SHIFTING FROM THE EAST COAST TO JUST WEST OF GEORGIA. THIS SHOULD HELP TO INCREASE OUR RAIN CHANCES OVER THE WEEKEND AND INTO THE BEGINNING OF NEXT WEEK. && .FIRE WEATHER... MY NEW FORECAST NUMBERS FOR TEMPERATURES AND DEW POINTS DO NOT PRODUCE RELATIVE HUMIDITIES LOW ENOUGH TO MEET RED FLAG CRITERIA FOR TOMORROW AFTERNOON...BUT THEY ARE PRETTY CLOSE. I WILL NOT UPGRADE THE CURRENT FIRE WEATHER WATCH AT THIS TIME...BUT I WILL CONTINUE THE WATCH FOR NOW WITH THE POSSIBILITY THAT DEW POINTS MAY END UP FALLING LOWER THAN MY CURRENT PREDICTIONS. MIDNIGHT CREW CAN TAKE ONE LAST LOOK AT THIS AND MAKE A FINAL DECISION. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... ATHENS 59 87 57 87 59 / 5 5 5 5 10 ATLANTA 61 85 59 86 62 / 5 5 0 5 10 BLAIRSVILLE 54 79 53 79 55 / 5 5 5 20 20 CARTERSVILLE 56 85 52 83 58 / 5 5 5 10 20 COLUMBUS 64 88 60 89 66 / 20 5 0 5 10 GAINESVILLE 59 83 59 84 59 / 5 5 5 10 20 MACON 60 89 58 91 64 / 20 5 0 5 5 ROME 57 89 55 87 58 / 5 5 5 10 20 PEACHTREE CITY 55 85 53 86 60 / 10 5 0 5 10 VIDALIA 66 90 58 90 67 / 20 5 5 5 5 && .FFC WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... FIRE WEATHER WATCH FROM WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING ZONES: BIBB...BLECKLEY... CHATTAHOOCHEE...CRAWFORD...CRISP...DODGE...DOOLY...EMANUEL... HOUSTON...JEFFERSON...JOHNSON...LAURENS...MACON...MARION... MONTGOMERY...PEACH...PULASKI...SCHLEY...STEWART...SUMTER... TAYLOR...TELFAIR...TOOMBS...TREUTLEN...TWIGGS...WASHINGTON... WEBSTER...WHEELER...WILCOX...WILKINSON. && 20
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 413 PM EDT TUE JUN 17 2008 GAZ052-066-067-172100- 413 PM EDT TUE JUN 17 2008 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH IN TROUP...MERIWETHER AND HEARD COUNTIES UNTIL 500 PM EDT... AT 413 PM EDT/307 PM CDT/...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM NEAR COOKSVILLE TO 5 MILES WEST OF WEST POINT...AND MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. WIND GUSTS OF 40 MPH...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAIN ARE LIKELY AS THESE STORMS MOVE ACROSS PORTIONS OF TROUP... MERIWETHER AND HEARD COUNTIES THROUGH 500 PM EDT. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE LONG CANE...HARRISONVILLE... COOKSVILLE... ABBOTTSFORD...FRANKLIN...WEST POINT...LA GRANGE... CORINTH...LOUISE...HOGANSVILLE...LONE OAK...SAINT MARKS... MOUNTVILLE...JONES CROSSROADS AND STOVALL.
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 60 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:28 UTC.
2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
The Troup County 911 Center reported that four trees and two power lines were down on the west side of La Grange and along the eastern shores of West Point Lake.
The Upson County 911 Center reported that a thunderstorm downburst resulted in one to two dozen trees being blown down in the Sunset Village area just north of Georgia Highway 74 along and west of Sunnyside Road. One home sustained considerable damage when several trees fell on the structure. A pool house was blown over on Lucille Drive and a flag pole was also bent over.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Georgia in 2008Every state in 2008This day in weather historyWarnings in Georgia, June 2008
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: 114975, 114994.