Isolated severe weather strikes Georgia-Carolina

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By Rich Rogers rrogers@nbcaugusta.com

A cold front, combined with plenty of heat and humidity sparked off more showers and thunderstorms Wednesday evening, mainly west and north of Augusta.

A seabreeze front also was a factor in creating the storms, as it interacted with leftover boundaries from Tuesday evening's storms. The heaviest rain occurred in central Jefferson, Glascock, Wilkes, northern McDuffie, and Lincoln counties in Georgia, and central McCormick County in South Carolina.

Some isolated damage was reported with the storms that developed. In Jefferson County, trees were reported down. The same was true in Glascock County near the town of Mitchell, where a barn was also damaged. In Edgefield County, a thunderstorm knocked down trees and power lines in the Martintown Road and Walker Road area. NBC Augusta was first to alert viewers to the danger posed by this storm, as no Severe Thunderstorm Warning was issued by the National Weather Service for southern Edgefield County.

Doppler radar also indicated hail in many of the storms, but there were no confirmed reports of hail in the area as of late Wednesday evening.

Virtually all of the Augusta metro area received little or no rain from these storms.

More isolated thunderstorms are possible Thursday afternoon and evening, but their coverage is not expected to be as widespread.

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