EF0 Tornado — Appling, Georgia

2021-12-30 · near Graham, Appling, Georgia

Event narrative

A tornado began to decrease down to an EF0 as it tracked over the Jeff Davis and Appling county border. The last tornado damage found was along Alma Highway where a couple of softwood trees were snapped and branches broken ranging from 1 to 3 inches in diameter. This is the end of the tornado track.

Wider weather episode

A broken prefrontal squall line shifted southward into the Ocmulgee and Altamaha River basins during the afternoon and early evening hours. Warm, moist southwesterly flow ahead of the line increased low-level moisture and destabilized the area with afternoon surface-based CAPE around 1000 J/kg and dew points near 70 degrees. The cold front and upper trough approached from the northwest increasing 0-6 km shear to around 40-50 knots with an area of 0-3 km SRH near 200 m2/s2 west-northwest of Waycross, GA. These convective ingredients allowed for a few strong to severe thunderstorms to develop and produce damaging winds and a brief tornado. A severe thunderstorm moving through southern Jeff Davis county produced an EF1 intensity tornado that formed south of Denton, GA. The tornado tracked east-northeastward around 25 mph through Jeff Davis county before dissipating as soon as the severe thunderstorm moved into Appling county.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1003840. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.