Sleet in Georgia
Every sleet event the National Weather Service has filed in Georgia, year by year, with the most significant episodes. Sleet accumulating half an inch or more.
The most significant on the map
The most significant sleet episodes in Georgia.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The record
- Events
- 27
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Damage
- None recorded
Every year
The most significant
Ranked by deaths, injuries, damage and size together.
- Ice Storm and Sleet in Georgia, January 29, 2014A anomolous winter weather event including sleet, freezing rain and snow flurries occurred on Jan 29th when an area of low pressure deepened offshore of the Fl/Ga Altantic coast and cold and moist air funnelled southward on the west side of the low over southeast Georgia and…
- Winter Storm and Sleet in Georgia, February 12 to 13, 2010A surface low tracked eastward from the Gulf of Mexico with a surface warm front extending toward the southern Florida peninsula. Cold air was in place across the area as well as deep moisture.
- Sleet in Georgia, February 1, 1999A mixture of rain, freezing rain, and sleet continued from the afternoon of January 31st into the morning of February 1st. Accumulations were mostly in higher elevations on trees and power lines.
- Winter Weather and Sleet in Georgia, January 1, 2011Strong high pressure along the Atlantic coast had wedged cold air east of the Appalachian Mountains with temperatures dipping into the upper 30s near the Altamaha River in southeast Georgia.
- Sleet in Georgia, January 31, 1999Unusually strong arctic high pressure centered over New England again ushered a very cold and dry airmass into northeast Georgia ahead of a storm system moving east across the Gulf Coast States.
- Sleet in Georgia, December 23 to 24, 1998Freezing rain and some sleet developed early Wednesday morning and continued into the early morning of Christmas Eve. Ice accumulations were light and limited to trees and power lines. No problems developed as a result of the freezing precipitation.
- Sleet in Georgia, March 20, 2001Light snow and sleet caused numerous traffic accidents on roads and highways. Some accidents resulted in injuries and fatalities.
- Sleet in Georgia, February 2, 2005A small area of thunderstorms caused a significant amount of pea-sized hail to fall across eastern Coweta and much of Fayette counties.
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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.