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EF1 tornado in Mitchell County, Georgia

Tornado April 5, 2022 · Mitchell County, Georgia

EF1
Rating
8.1 mi
Path length
50 yd
Path width
$100K
Damage as recorded
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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 tornado touched down near the intersection of Faircloth road and Tuton Road in Mitchell county. It snapped a stand of large pine trees before moving east southeast towards a residence along Tuton road. At the residence, it snapped and uprooted several large pine trees, uplifted and destroyed a car port, and slightly moved a tiny home off its foundation, but did not produce significant damage to it. The very evident path continued to a residence along Palm road where it snapped a few pine trees across the field from the house. The tornado continued east towards Bobwhite Way where a stand of large pine trees and other miscellaneous trees were uprooted or snapped along the road. The path of the tornado was very evident through a Plantation where a line of large pine trees were snapped or uprooted until Georgia highway 93. A residence along Georgia highway 93 had a front porch lifted off the house, as well as many large trees snapped or uprooted along the property. The tree damage continued towards the Mitchell and Colquitt county line where the tornado likely lifted. This tornado was rated an EF1 with maximum winds around 90 mph.

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 Greenough (31.3206, -84.1347).

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 1022354. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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