EF0 tornado in Wilcox County, Georgia

Tornado April 5, 2022 · Wilcox County, Georgia

EF0

Rating

9.4 mi

Whole path

200 yd

Path width

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Wilcox County → Dodge 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

A tornado touched down several miles south-southwest of Abbeville

in Wilcox County destroying a mobile home and overturning another

trailer off of Briarwood Road, just south of American Legion

Road. The tornado snapped or uprooted multiple trees as it

tracked northeast across Fullmers Lake and Hwy 129 South. [4/5/22: Tornado #12, County #1/2, EF-0, Wilcox/Dodge, 2022:015].

The wider storm

A multi-day severe weather outbreak initiated with a warm moist air mass situated over Georgia as a strengthening upper level system pushed across central Georgia. With moderate instability in place with increased shear, combined to create numerous severe thunderstorms, taking the form of a quasi-linear convective system (QLCS) with several strong supercells ahead of the front. The resulting front stalled across central Georgia and interacted with a weaker shortwave moving up from the Gulf of Mexico, serving as a catalyst for another day of severe weather and flash flooding on April 6th.

Began near Abbeville (31.9286, -83.3573).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1022771. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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