Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Garden City, GA

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Savannah International Airport, GA, 3 miles northwest of Garden City at 46 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 92°F and low of 74°F; January is the coolest, at 61°F and 40°F. June is the wettest at 6.7 inches of precipitation on average and November the driest at 2.4 inches; the year adds up to 48.3 inches over 70 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 59% of the year's precipitation (28.5 of 48.3 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 101 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (30); a normal September there has highs of 86°F and 4.4 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 81 days a year, almost all from April to September. Lows fall below freezing on about 22 nights a year. That 48.3 inches is more than at 26 of the 108 Georgia stations used on this site (24%). Bluffton, SC, 20 miles northeast, has its own station (Beaufort Mcas, SC): 45.1 inches a year, 3.2 less than here, and the same July average high, 92°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Fort Pulaski, GA, 16 miles east, averaged 85°F in July and 54°F in January over 2021–2025. It averaged 80°F or warmer from June to September. Sea level at the Fort Pulaski tide gauge, 16 miles from Garden City, has risen 1.44 ± 0.05 inches per decade from 1935 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 14.4 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 88 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 559 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Garden City: 444 thunderstorm wind reports, 77 flash floods, 34 lightning strikes, 3 heavy rain events and 1 flood. They killed 2 people and injured 19, and the NWS estimated $4.8 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 91 mph, on April 25, 2015. August has had the most flash floods, 34 of 77. Of the 392 Georgia cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 389 have had fewer than Garden City.

Flood insurance policyholders in Garden City's ZIP code 31408 have filed 97 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1979, and were paid $1.9 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Matthew in 2016: 25 claims (26% of all) and $787,000, then Flooding in 1994 with 15 and Hurricane Debby in 2024 with 13. 62% of the claims carry the name of a storm or flood event; the rest have no event name. Of the 154 Georgia cities on this site with 10 or more claims, 116 have fewer than Garden City.