The eye of Hurricane Georges made landfall on the mainland United States just east of Biloxi, Mississippi in the early morning hours (about 10 Z) of the 28th. A Category Two hurricane, Georges hit the coast with 90-knot maximum sustained surface winds.

After landfall, Georges' forward progress ceased almost entirely, weakening to a tropical storm by early evening. The storm meandered over southern Mississippi for the next 6 to 12 hours before moving eastward and dissipating near the Florida/Georgia coast on the 29th and 30th. This deceleration of the storm caused some prolific rains to fall over the eastern Gulf Coast region. Amounts generally ranged between 10 and 25 inches from southern Mississippi and Alabama, to the Florida Panhandle. The two highest storm totals were 29.66 inches from a cooperative station in Bay Minette, Alabama and 38.46 inches at Munson, Florida.