EF0 Tornado — Wilcox, Georgia

2022-04-05 · near Abbeville, Wilcox, Georgia

Event narrative

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].

Wider weather episode

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.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1022771. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.