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Tornado in Worth County, Georgia

Tornado April 6, 2022 · Worth County, Georgia

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Not rated
10.6 mi
Whole path
25 yd
Path width

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Colquitt County → Worth County → Tift County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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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.

Not rated. NOAA lists no rating for this tornado. Ratings come from surveying damage, and the National Weather Service now records “EFU” (unknown) when a tornado hit nothing a survey team could rate.

What the National Weather Service wrote

This tornado was confirmed via video on social media and photo from emergency management. Other than a few trees down, no damage of note has been reported from this tornado, which passed through mostly farmland and unpopulated rural areas of Colquitt, Worth, and Tift counties. Therefore, the rating is left as EF Unknown. The location and time is estimated from the video, photos, and radar data.

The wider storm

A slow moving cold front brought multiple rounds of severe weather to the tri-state region from April 5-7. Several tornadoes occurred along with numerous reports of wind damage and a few reports of large hail. None of the tornadoes were rated stronger than EF1.

Began near Scooterville (31.3312, -83.6781).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

9 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1022288. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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