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October 5, 1995 · NOAA Storm Events record
Event narrative (NOAA)
Hurricane Opal, which formed in the Gulf of Mexico, began threatening the Florida panhandle and Alabama on Tuesday October 3. At approximately 1645 EDT on Wednesday October 4, Hurricane Opal made landfall just west of Fort Walton Beach Florida and began a northward track through eastern Alabama, where it was downgraded to a Tropical Storm; and into Tennessee, where it was downgraded again to a Tropical Depression. As Opal tracked northward, thunderstorm winds knocked down close to ten thousand trees in more than 50 Georgia counties. More than four thousand trees were knocked down within the city of Atlanta alone. These trees fell across roads, and on power lines, homes, mobile homes, and automobiles. At least eight people died between Wednesday night (October 4) and Thursday morning (
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Source: NOAA/NCEI Storm Events Database. Deaths and injuries are those NOAA classifies as direct. Damage is the reporting office's estimate at the time and is not inflation-adjusted. This is a catalogue record, not a forecast.