As of 6:30am the front that has caused so much destruction across the south is making its way through Georgia. Fortunately it has lost a lot of energy, while there is a tornado watch across most of GA and SC, there are currently “only” two tornado warnings, south of Albany and right over Augusta … although a tornado warning was just issued at 7am for Allendale SC.
Radar shows the leading squall line or Quasi Linear Convective System (QLCS) just past Macon, and lighting detection over the last 15 minutes shows it still has enough energy to cause high winds and the potential for a tornado; click any image to embigen as usual:
The HRRR model shows the leading edge of the rain reaching the coast around 9am …
some scattered storm entering the area over the following couple of hours, and a rejuvinated line of storms sweeping through coastal counties around 2pm.
By 5pm should be off the coast.
The NOAA SPC has this classified as a 5% or slight chance of spawning a tornado. That’s a 1 in 20 chance, which isn’t huge, but enough to make sure you have your weather radio on and know what to do in case a tornado warning is issues for your area. Be aware that these are “rain wrapped” tornadoes that are forming, which means they are very hard to see until they are on top of you!
While storms especially before daylight can be scary, this is not as dangerous as it was yesterday farther west. But it is a dynamic situation – please don’t try to keep up using social media or the internet! You should have a weather radio or if not tune in to a local radio station (not satellite!).
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