MACON, Ga. — After making landfall in Florida at around 7 a.m. Monday morning, Tropical Storm Debby moved up to Georgia and eventually stayed largely still over southeast Georgia overnight.
While no longer a hurricane, that doesn’t mean the storm doesn’t pack a punch – or at least have an impact here in Georgia.
Ranging from flash flooding to high winds, Tropical Storm Debby unleashed a deluge of steady rain on southeast Georgia and some parts of Central Georgia.
But how much rain did we see in Georgia in the 24 hours since Debby made landfall?
Here’s what the recently released data from the National Weather Service and United States Geological Survey shows:
How much did it rain in Central Georgia?
According to the data, Central Georgia avoided the largest rainfall totals, but some areas did see a good chunk of rain from Tropical Storm Debby.
In Georgia, the highest recorded rain totals within 24 hours came from outside Savannah with just under 9.5 inches, according to the United States Geological Survey.
At the very tip of our viewing area at 13WMAZ, near McRae-Helena, the United States Geological Survey reported 3.73 inches of rain over 24 hours. In the city of Scotland, which is located in Wheeler and Telfair counties, they saw 3.81 inches of rain over 24 hours.
Then in Montgomery County's Charlotteville site at the Altamaha River, they reported 4.63 inches of rain in 24 hours. That's the largest rainfall total in the area covered by the National Weather Service’s Peachtree station.
The data also confirms that the more north you went in Central Georgia the less rainfall you saw.
While Charlotteville had 4.63 inches, Mount Vernon saw 3.94 inches further north. Then Dublin saw 1.28 inches, and even further north, Oconee saw 0.48 inches. Eastman saw roughly 1 inch of rain, the weather service reported.
Milledgeville saw 0.17 inches of rain. The Macon site saw 0.02 inches. Dames Ferry in Monroe County received 0.05 inches at their site. Clinchfield in Houston County saw 0.22 inches of rain.
Further south; the more rain
Luckily, Central Georgia was not on the dirty side of the storm. That’s on the right side of the storm, which typically sees the most severe weather popping up and the highest rain totals.
Areas on that side of the storm – most notably the Savannah metropolitan area – saw the largest brunt of the storm and the some of highest rainfall totals.
The highest totals in Georgia were clocked at the gauge at Blitchton, which is 30 minutes outside of Savannah. They clocked 9.45 inches in 24 hours.
In Savannah, the site at Abercorn Creek saw 9.27 inches of rain in 24 hours. Waycross, an hour or so away from Brunswick, saw 8.06 inches.
But up in Atlanta, some areas did not receive any rainfall, a drastically different picture from the communities hammered by Tropical Storm Debby on the southeast part of the state and near the coast.
For a look at the rest of the sites across Georgia, you can click here.