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Storm could reach area as early as noon today
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Updated: Jan 9, 2024, 3:40 PM
Published: Jan 9, 2024, 2:57 PM

Severe thunderstorms are expected to arrive in Liberty County as early as noon today, according to the National Weather Service.

Coastal Liberty County and eastern Long County can expect to have storms arrive between 2-5 p.m., according to a NWS briefing this morning.

The main severe weather threats are damaging wind gusts and tornadoes. There is a risk of winds or wind gusts exceeding 60 knots (70 mph) and a couple of significant (EF2 or stronger) tornadoes.

A wind advisory is in effect. Winds on Fort Stewart have been registered as high as 41 mph today.


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Early morning accident in McIntosh County kills five
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Updated: Apr 6, 2025, 6:53 PM
Published: Apr 6, 2025, 6:43 PM

Five people were killed and another one was injured following a two-vehicle accident in McIntosh County on Sunday morning.

Witnesses told Georgia State Patrol Trooper Christopher Ashdown that a Jeep Cherokee was traveling south on Interstate 95 at a high rate of speed when it rear-ended an Infiniti. The Cherokee hit a guard rail, bursting into flames. The crash and ensuing fire killed one adult and four children.

The driver of the Jeep Cherokee has been identified a Reagan Dougan, 27. GSP troopers have learned she rented the vehicle in Raleigh, N.C., and was heading to Florida to meet her husband. The children were a 9-year-old boy, a 4-year-old boy, a 2-year-old girl and a 3-month-old boy.

Ashdown said the Cherokee was a rental and authorities are in the process of identifying the victims.  The driver of the Infiniti, from Long County, was transported to Southeast Regional Health System in Brunswick with non-life-threatening injuries.

The accident occurred at mile marker 62 around 6 a.m.

 

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