A combination of periods of persistent and strong northeast winds, the proxigean spring tides, and a full moon produced several days of elevated high tides. A few of the high tide cycles produced flooding along the southeast Georgia coast, especially in and around the Tybee Island area.
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 CHS wrote it up.
A combination of periods of persistent and strong northeast winds, the proxigean spring tides, and a full moon produced several days of elevated high tides. A few of the high tide cycles produced flooding along the southeast Georgia coast, especially in and around the Tybee Island area.
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 Sep 27, 6:31 PM EST, 13 hours 29 minutes earlier.
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The morning high tide reached 9.71 feet mean lower low water at the Fort Pulaski tide gauge and resulted in flooding on Highway 80. The road was closed with approximately 10 inches of water on the roadway near Lazaretto Creek, and there was also 4 to 6 inches of water reported across the road between mile markers 30 and 31.
The morning high tide peaked at 9.81 feet mean lower low water at the Fort Pulaski tide gauge. This produced flooding on Highway 80 causing the road to close near the Bull River bridge.
The morning high tide peaked at 9.52 feet mean lower low water at the Fort Pulaski tide gauge. This produced flooding on Highway 80 causing the road to close near the Lazaretto Creek bridge.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Georgia in 2015Every state in 2015This day in weather historyWarnings in Georgia, September 2015
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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 602589, 602590, 602591.