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EF0 tornado in Baldwin County, Georgia

Tornado April 5, 2022 · Baldwin County, Georgia

EF0
Rating
1.7 mi
Path length
150 yd
Path width
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 150 yards (0.09 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 brief tornado touched down west-northwest of Milledgeville just

after 4PM on April 5th. More than 100 trees were reported down

around a property just south of the Old Monticello Road NW and

Avery Store Road intersection, with additional trees snapped or

uprooted about 1/2 mile up along Avery Store Road. [4/5/22: Tornado #9, County #1/1, EF-0, Baldwin, 2022:012].

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 Browns Crossing (33.0950, -83.3493).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF3 Houston CountyEF2 Dooly CountyEF1 Sumter CountyEF1 Chattahoochee CountyEF1 Taylor CountyEF1 Taylor CountyEF1 Macon CountyEF1 Crawford CountyEF1 Bibb CountyEF1 Twiggs CountyEF1 Bleckley CountyEF1 Treutlen CountyEF1 Emanuel CountyEF1 Bleckley CountyEF1 Laurens CountyEF1 Dodge CountyEF1 Johnson CountyEF1 Emanuel CountyEF1 Bleckley CountyEF0 Wilcox CountyEF0 Treutlen CountyEF0 Twiggs County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1022798. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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