Scattered to numerous thunderstorms developed in the late afternoon hours across southeast Georgia. These thunderstorms developed within an inland trough of low pressure and developed into multi-cell clusters.
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The episode as NWS CHS wrote it up.
Scattered to numerous thunderstorms developed in the late afternoon hours across southeast Georgia. These thunderstorms developed within an inland trough of low pressure and developed into multi-cell clusters. The thunderstorms produced scattered wind damage across portions of southeast Georgia.
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 Charleston, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 10, 3:15 PM EST, 1 hour 23 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 415 PM EDT THU JUL 10 2014 .SYNOPSIS... A WEAK COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH THE REGION TONIGHT BUT WILL LIKELY STALL NORTH OF THE AREA...BEFORE DISSIPATING THROUGH THE WEEKEND. ANOTHER COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH FROM THE WEST BY THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK. THIS FRONT WILL LIKELY STALL AND DISSIPATE OVER THE REGION. OTHERWISE...THE REGION WILL REMAIN SITUATED BETWEEN ATLANTIC HIGH PRESSURE AND AN INLAND TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE THROUGH THE PERIOD. && .NEAR TERM /UNTIL 6 AM FRIDAY MORNING/... THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT...HIGH PRESSURE WILL CONTINUE TO RETREAT OVER THE WESTERN ATLANTIC AS A BROAD TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE TRACKS FROM THE MIDWEST TO THE NORTHEAST UNITED STATES. THIS TROUGH WILL LIKELY SHIFT A WEAK SFC FRONT TOWARD THE SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES THIS EVENING AND EARLY TONIGHT...BUT THE FRONT SHOULD STALL NORTH/NORTHWEST OF THE FORECAST AREA OVERNIGHT. AHEAD OF THE FRONT...A SOUTH/SOUTHWEST FLOW CONTINUES TO BRING DEEP MOISTURE TO THE AREA...WHICH WILL SUPPORT SHOWER AND/OR THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THE EVENING AND POSSIBLY INTO EARLY TONIGHT. MOST ACTIVITY WILL INITIALLY REMAIN ALONG AN INLAND MOVING SEABREEZE BEFORE GREATER COVERAGE OCCURS INLAND. HAVE MAINTAINED THE OVERALL TREND IN THE PRECIP FORECAST FOR THIS EVENING...WITH HIGHEST POPS NEAR 60 INLAND WHERE BOUNDARY INTERACTIONS BETWEEN SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS AS WELL AS THE SEABREEZE ARE LIKELY TO OCCUR. SLIGHTLY LOWER CHANCES OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL REMAIN NEAR THE COAST...ESPECIALLY AFTER THE SEABREEZE PUSHES FURTHER INLAND. PWATS CONTINUE TO INCREASE OVER THE AREA THIS EVENING AND SHOULD REACH 2.00 INCHES BY SUNSET. WEAK WIND FIELDS ALONG WITH POOR MID LVL LAPSE RATES DURING THE TIME OF DEEPEST MOISTURE LEVELS THIS EVENING SUPPORT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL...MAINLY INLAND. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS COULD ALSO PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS. ALTHOUGH WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED THIS EVENING OR OVERNIGHT...A FEW PULSE TYPE STORMS COULD BECOME STRONG/SEVERE INITIALLY...BEFORE GREATER COVERAGE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DEPLETES AVAILABLE ENERGY AND IS FOLLOWED BY SUNSET. EXPECT A DECREASING TREND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH MIDNIGHT. OVERNIGHT LOWS SHOULD RANGE IN THE LOW TO MID 70S AWAY FROM THE IMMEDIATE COAST. && .SHORT TERM /6 AM FRIDAY MORNING THROUGH SUNDAY/... FRIDAY...LOOKS A BIT UNSETTLED WITH A STALLED FRONT AND UPPER TROUGH OVER THE AREA ALONG WITH ABUNDANT MOISTURE. SCATTERED TO POSSIBLY NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND STORMS ARE EXPECTED. SLOW STORM MOTIONS AND PWATS NEAR 2 INCHES WILL ALLOW FOR SOME HEAVY RAINFALL. TEMPERATURES SHOULD BE CLOSER TO NORMAL WITH INCREASED CLOUD/RAIN COVERAGE...MAINLY LOWER 90S INLAND WITH MID TO UPPER 80S NEAR THE COAST. SATURDAY AND SUNDAY...HIGH PRESSURE RIDGING BUILDS IN FROM THE WEST PUSHING THE DEEPER MOISTURE SOUTH AND EAST THROUGH THE WEEKEND AND THUS RAIN COVERAGE SHOULD BE LESSENING EACH DAY...ESPECIALLY OVER SOUTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA. TEMPERATURES WILL AGAIN BE CLOSE TO NORMAL SATURDAY AND THEN ABOVE NORMAL SUNDAY. && .LONG TERM /SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY/... A DEEP LAYER RIDGE BEGINS TO SAG SOUTH OF THE AREA THROUGH THE PERIOD AS A BROAD UPPER TROUGH...WHICH COVERS THE EASTERN HALF OF THE U.S...SLOWLY SINKS TOWARD THE REGION FROM THE NORTH. EXPECT SCATTERED AFTERNOON AND EVENING CONVECTION MONDAY AND TUESDAY. THE FLOW AT LOWER LEVELS WILL BE SOUTHWEST...WHICH WILL KEEP TEMPS A FEW DEGS ABOVE NORMAL...WITH HIGHS THE MID 90S AND LOWS IN THE MID TO UPPER 70S. WEDNESDAY LOOKS TO BE THE WETTEST DAY OF THE PERIOD AS A WEAK COLD FRONT SAGS INTO THE AREA ALONG WITH THE ASSOCIATED UPPER TROUGH. GIVEN THE UNCERTAINTY AT THIS POINT...WENT WITH HIGHER END CHANCE POPS FOR NOW. BY THURSDAY...THE WEAK COLD FRONT/SURFACE TROUGH SEEMS TO STALL AND DISSIPATE OVER THE REGION. THE UPPER TROUGH STARTS TO FLATTEN AS THE DEEP LAYER MOISTURE DECREASES SOME. THUS...CLIMO/CHANCE POPS FOR DIURNALLY BASED CONVECTION SEEMS REASONABLE AT THIS TIME. TEMPS NEAR CLIMO. && .AVIATION /20Z THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY/... BRIEF PERIODS OF FLIGHT RESTRICTIONS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AT EITHER TERMINAL...BUT ESPECIALLY AT THE SAV TERMINAL WHERE A SEABREEZE WILL BE SHIFTING INLAND SHORTLY. HAVE THEREFORE MAINTAINED TEMPO MVFR CIGS/VSBYS DUE TO THUNDERSTORMS BETWEEN 18Z-22Z AT THE SAV TERMINAL. CONFIDENCE IN THUNDERSTORMS DIRECTLY IMPACTING THE CHS TERMINAL ARE LESS...SO HAVE OPTED TO MAINTAIN VICINITY THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON. THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL PERSIST THROUGH THIS EVENING...BUT VFR CONDITIONS SHOULD PREVAIL AT BOTH CHS AND SAV TERMINALS BY SUNSET THROUGH EARLY FRIDAY AFTERNOON. EXTENDED AVIATION OUTLOOK...MAINLY VFR THROUGH EARLY NEXT WEEK WITH BRIEF FLIGHT RESTRICTIONS DUE TO MOSTLY AFTERNOON SHOWERS/THUNDERSTORMS...ESPECIALLY FRIDAY. CHANCES FOR CONVECTION INCREASE FOR THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK AS A COLD FRONT APPROACHES. && .MARINE... TONIGHT...CONDITIONS WILL REMAIN BELOW SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY LEVELS OVERNIGHT. IN GENERAL...SOUTH/SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL REMAIN AT OR BELOW 15 KTS...ALTHOUGH LOCAL WINDS COULD VARY NEAR THUNDERSTORMS. SEAS WILL RANGE FROM 2-4 FT...HIGHEST BEYOND 20 NM FROM THE COAST. FRIDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...NO SIGNIFICANT CONCERNS EXPECTED THROUGH THE PERIOD...ESPECIALLY THROUGH THE WEEKEND...AS A WEAK PRESSURE GRADIENT REMAINS IN PLACE. CONDITIONS WILL DETERIORATE A BIT EARLY NEXT WEEK THOUGH AS A COLD FRONT APPROACHES FROM THE WEST. && .TIDES/COASTAL FLOODING... THE EARLY EVENING HIGH TIDE...CLOSE TO 7 PM...WILL BE ELEVATED BUT IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN BELOW COASTAL FLOOD ADVISORY LEVELS. HOWEVER...IF HEAVY RAIN FALLS NEAR THE COAST THIS EVENING LOCALIZED FLOODING COULD OCCUR. ASTRONOMICAL HIGH TIDES DUE TO THE FULL MOON/PERIGEE AND LIGHT TO MODERATE ONSHORE WINDS COULD RESULT IN MINOR COASTAL FLOODING NEAR THE TIMES OF HIGH TIDE DURING THE EVENING HOURS FRIDAY THROUGH EARLY NEXT WEEK. && .CHS WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... GA...NONE. SC...NONE. MARINE...NONE. && NEAR TERM...DPB SHORT TERM...RJB LONG TERM...RFM AVIATION...DPB/RJB MARINE...DPB/RJB TIDES/COASTAL FLOODING...
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 509 AM EDT THU JUL 10 2014 GAZ087-088-099>101-114>116-118-137-138-140-SCZ040-042>045-047-052- 110915- JENKINS-SCREVEN-CANDLER-BULLOCH-EFFINGHAM-TATTNALL-EVANS- INLAND BRYAN-INLAND CHATHAM-LONG-INLAND LIBERTY-INLAND MCINTOSH- ALLENDALE-HAMPTON-INLAND COLLETON-DORCHESTER-INLAND BERKELEY- INLAND JASPER-TIDAL BERKELEY- 509 AM EDT THU JUL 10 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST GEORGIA AND SOUTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. SEVERE WEATHER AND HEAVY RAIN...ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS COULD BRIEFLY BECOME SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL...MAINLY THIS AFTERNOON. ALSO...THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN AND LOCALIZED FLOODING THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT. CHECK WITH NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER MEDIA OUTLETS FOR UPDATES TODAY AND TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ASSISTANCE COULD BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT. GAZ117-119-139-141-SCZ048>051-110915- COASTAL BRYAN-COASTAL CHATHAM-COASTAL LIBERTY-COASTAL MCINTOSH- BEAUFORT-COASTAL COLLETON-CHARLESTON-COASTAL JASPER- 509 AM EDT THU JUL 10 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST GEORGIA AND SOUTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. HEAVY RAIN...THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT. LOCALIZED FLOODING IS POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY IF HEAVY RAIN FALLS AROUND THE TIME OF THE THURSDAY EVENING HIGH TIDE. CHECK WITH NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER MEDIA OUTLETS FOR UPDATES TODAY AND TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. HIGH TIDES...HIGH ASTRONOMICAL TIDES COMBINED WITH ONSHORE FLOW IN THE WAKE OF THE SEAS BREEZE COULD RESULT IN SHALLOW COASTAL FLOODING AROUND THE TIME OF HIGH TIDE EACH EVENING FRIDAY THROUGH MONDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ASSISTANCE IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. AMZ330-350-352-354-374-110915- CHARLESTON HARBOR- WATERS FROM SOUTH SANTEE RIVER TO EDISTO BEACH SC OUT 20 NM- WATERS FROM EDISTO BEACH SC TO SAVANNAH GA OUT 20 NM- WATERS FROM SAVANNAH GA TO ALTAMAHA SOUND GA OUT 20 NM...INCLUDING GRAYS REEF NATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARY- WATERS FROM SAVANNAH GA TO ALTAMAHA SOUND GA EXTENDING FROM 20 TO 60 NM- 509 AM EDT THU JUL 10 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR ATLANTIC COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ASSISTANCE IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
440 PM EDT THU JUL 10 2014
GAZ137-140-141-102145-
COASTAL MCINTOSH-INLAND MCINTOSH-LONG-
440 PM EDT THU JUL 10 2014
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT PORTIONS OF LONG AND MCINTOSH
COUNTIES THROUGH 545 PM EDT...
AT 438 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM LUDOWICI TO 9
MILES SOUTHWEST OF COX TO 29 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DARIEN...MOVING EAST
AT 15 MPH.
SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED INCLUDE...
LUDOWICI...COX...COX...AIMAR...MURRAYS CROSSING...TOWNSEND...
PREPARE NOW FOR THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS...
STRONG WINDS OF 45 TO 55 MPH...
PENNY SIZE HAIL...
FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FREQUENT CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING. POSTPONE OUTDOOR
ACTIVITIES PROMPTLY. SEEK SHELTER INSIDE AN ENCLOSED BUILDING.
HAVE AN ACTION PLAN READY IN THE EVENT THIS STORM STRENGTHENS OR A
WARNING IS ISSUED. CONTINUE TO MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO ALL HAZARDS
FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AS STORMS APPROACH.
BE READY TO TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION IN CASE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING IS ISSUED FOR YOUR LOCATION.
&&
LAT...LON 3132 8137 3130 8142 3133 8144 3137 8155
3145 8163 3147 8161 3149 8165 3154 8167
3155 8170 3158 8170 3166 8185 3174 8191
3177 8164 3174 8158 3146 8124 3137 8126
3143 8132 3137 8128 3130 8127 3129 8130
TIME...MOT...LOC 2040Z 254DEG 14KT 3167 8181 3136 8164
3102 8170The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 113 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:38 UTC.
10 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Liberty County communications center reported a tree down at the intersection of Oglethorpe Highway and Talmadge Road.
Liberty County communications center reports a tree down on a power line near Fort Stewart.
One tree reported down at Highway 204 and Carlos Cowart Road.
One tree down at Wilma Edwards Road and Bill Futch Road.
Law enforcement reports multiple trees down at the 700 block of Sandhill Road.
Law enforcement reports multiple trees and power lines down at Sandhill Road and Murray Hill Road.
Law enforcement reports a tree down at Marlowe Road and Highway 17.
One tree reported down on Live Oak Trail.
One tree reported down at Heidt Landing Road and McLaws Road.
One tree reported down at the 1000 block of Silver Hill Church Road.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Georgia in 2014Every state in 2014This day in weather historyWarnings in Georgia, July 2014
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: 531585, 531584, 531583, 531582, 531580, 531581, 531579, 531577, 531578, 531576.