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EF0 tornado in Echols County, Georgia

Tornado March 23, 2022 · Echols County, Georgia

EF0

Rating

0.5 mi

Path length

25 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 25 yards (0.01 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

At 1:53 PM EST, an EF0 tornado passed through an area of homes near the intersection of HWY 135 south and Jean circle in Echols county. Damage was reported from multiple sources from the Echols county sheriff department and emergency manager as well as the NWS Jacksonville storm survey. Between Walt road and Jean circle, multiple metal roofs were damaged, uplifted and blown away from sheds, a metal building system, and a couple of single wide mobile homes. Power lines were down along Walt road caused by metal roofing from a shed being blown into the primary lines. A street sign was also pulled from the ground near Jean circle. Multiple hardwood trees along the half mile path had large tree branches broken off.

The wider storm

Prefrontal showers and storms began to move into southeast Georgia Wednesday morning. A small intense mesoscale convective system ahead of the cold front moved slowly northeastward from the northeastern Gulf of Mexico into Suwannee Valley late morning into early afternoon. Just before 2 PM EST, an embedded thunderstorm in the convective system produced an EF0 tornado that passed through an area of homes near the intersection of HWY 135 south and Jean circle in Echols county. Multiple reports of roof damage and large tree branches down were observed.

Began near Statenville (30.7004, -83.0635).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1011614. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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