EF0 tornado in Brooks County, Georgia

Tornado April 6, 2022 · Brooks County, Georgia

EF0

Rating

11.1 mi

Whole path

200 yd

Path width

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 200 yards (0.11 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

This tornado was radar confirmed, touching down just west of Madison Highway in Brooks County and lifting before reaching I-75 in Lowndes County. Based on reports from emergency managers, only trees were uprooted or limbs snapped along the path of the tornado, with no structural damage reported.

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 Nankin (30.6943, -83.5056).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Early County EF1 Early County EF1 Thomas County EF1 Turner County EF1 Lee County EF1 Mitchell County EF1 Thomas County EF0 Baker County EFU Colquitt County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1022357. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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