EF1 tornado in Dodge County, Georgia
Tornado April 5, 2022 · Dodge County, Georgia
NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Bleckley County → Dodge County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.
The path drawn at its surveyed width of 125 yards (0.07 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.
What the National Weather Service wrote
Continuation from Bleckley County -- The tornado continued ENE crossing Roddy Hwy and Frank Brown Rd snapping and uprooting a few trees. The tornado crossed Macedonia Church road where EF1 type tree damage was noted on the east side of the road. The tornado quickly weakened and lifted as it reached Nicholson Carr Rd. [4/5/22: Tornado #11, County #2/2, EF-1, Bleckley/Dodge, 2022:014].
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 Roddy (32.3610, -83.2830).
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 1022803. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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