EF0 Tornado — Echols, Georgia

2022-03-23 · near Statenville, Echols, Georgia

Event narrative

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.

Wider weather episode

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.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1011614. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.