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EF0 tornado in Toombs County, Georgia

Tornado January 2, 2022 · Toombs County, Georgia

EF0

Rating

0.4 mi

Path length

100 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF0 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF0 is light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 65–85 mph. The rating comes from a survey of the worst damage after the storm, not from a wind measurement, so it says as much about what the tornado hit as about how strong it was.

What the National Weather Service wrote

A very brief QLCS tornado hit the south side of Vidalia around

7PM on Sunday, January 2nd. The tornado did the most damage to

one of the Vidalia fire station's off of Aimwell Road. The garage

doors were blown inward and outward along with a portion of the

roof and siding pulled off. Debris was thrown about 200 yards

downstream from this point where additional trees were seen

snapped or uprooted. Some minor roof damage along with a few more

trees down were noted along South Gate Blvd and Katherine Drive.

No other damage was seen beyond this point. [1/2/22: Tornado #2, County #1/1, EF-0, Toombs, 2022:002].

The wider storm

Showers and thunderstorms affected much of the area ahead of a strong storm system and associated cold front. Some of the storms became severe with damaging winds and a few tornadoes, mainly on January 2nd. In the colder air behind the front, rain mixed with and eventually changed over to snow across parts of north Georgia (generally north of I-20/I-85) late on the 2nd and into January 3rd, with a dusting to up to 4 inches of snowfall (mainly across the higher elevations of far north GA). On the back side of this storm system, strong post-frontal winds of 30-50 mph occurred during the early morning hours of January 3rd. Numerous reports of downed trees and powerlines occurred with several injuries.

Began near Vidalia (32.1970, -82.4034).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF0 Wilcox County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1006019. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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