The highest recorded wind gust in that storm that swept across north Georgia Thursday was 69 mph which occurred in Athens, followed by a 68 mph gust in Forsyth County, one of the hardest hit areas.
Those were recorded at 6:57 and 6:00 p.m., respectively. The top gust in Gainesville was 49 mph at 6:09. Elsewhere in the area, Jefferson recorded a 53 mph gust and Alto one of 45 mph.
There were numerous other reporting stations across the area covered by the report which you can read here.https://nwschat.weather.gov/p.php?pid=202307210957-KFFC-NOUS42-PNSFFC&fbclid=IwAR2SBrLgEsuKYKcpgI8C2MBJu4uv4F9pwQOULBGHNy8Z1w8hdUOE5Ds2068
About the Author
Ken Stanford is Online News Editor for GLORY 97.5, a position he has held since August 2022.
Ken was born in Moultrie, Georgia, and says he knew from the time he was 5 or 6 he wanted to be a “radio announcer.” That dream was realized when he was hired by Moultrie radio station WMTM in 1960 at the age of 15 as a weekend disc jockey. A 1963 graduate of Moultrie (now Colquitt County) High School, he has spent his whole career in Georgia working for stations in Atlanta, Marietta, and Gainesville – most recently as News Director for 40 years at WDUN in Gainesville. He is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force Reserves.
Ken retired in 2011 but came out of retirement last year to help GLORY, on a part-time basis, beef-up its online news presence.
He is the recipient of many Associated Press awards and is a former judge of state and national Associated Press broadcast news contests. In 2005, he was presented with the Georgia Associated Press Broadcasters Association’s President’s Award for Excellence in Journalism and in 2019 was inducted into the Georgia Radio Hall of Fame.
He lives in Gainesville with his wife of 52 years, the former Sandra McKnight of Clio, Alabama, and they have one child, a daughter, Lisa, who lives in Cumming with her family.
