Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Waverly, GA

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Woodbine, GA, 9 miles southwest of Waverly at 16 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 91°F and low of 71°F; January is the coolest, at 63°F and 38°F. August is the wettest at 7.8 inches of precipitation on average and November the driest at 2.3 inches; the year adds up to 54.5 inches over 76 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 61% of the year's precipitation (33.2 of 54.5 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 93 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (30); a normal September there has highs of 85°F and 6.7 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 70 days a year, almost all from April to September. Lows fall below freezing on about 30 nights a year. That 54.5 inches is more than at 84 of the 108 Georgia stations used on this site (78%). Brunswick, 12 miles northeast, has its own station (Brunswick, GA): 50.4 inches a year, 4.1 less than here, and a July average high of 90°F against 91°F.

Sea level at the Fernandina Beach tide gauge, 29 miles from Waverly, has risen 0.91 ± 0.03 inches per decade from 1897 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 9.1 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 53 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 104 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Waverly: 91 thunderstorm wind reports, 7 heavy rain events, 5 floods and 1 lightning strike. None is recorded as killing or injuring anyone; the NWS estimated $67,000 in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 81 mph, on December 2, 2018.

Flood insurance policyholders in Waverly's ZIP code 31565 have filed 37 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1998, and were paid $660,000 for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Irma in 2017: 23 claims (62% of all) and $392,000. 89% 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, 75 have fewer than Waverly.