EF1 tornado in Emanuel County, Georgia

Tornado April 5, 2022 · Emanuel County, Georgia

EF1

Rating

6.9 mi

Whole path

150 yd

Path width

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

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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 EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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

The same mesovortex that produced a brief tornado in northcentral

Treutlen County on April 5, spun up another weak tornado

southwest of Swainsboro near Kemp Rd and Ebenezer Church Rd. It

traveled northeast downing several trees then traveled near the

intersection of US80 and US1 as it entered the city limits. More

trees were snapped or uprooted along the path as it traveled into

the city. Several businesses near downtown had a large amount of

tin roofing blown off and into streets. A few signs were also

blown down. The tornado lifted shortly after this point just

northeast of downtown. [4/5/22: Tornado #15, County #1/1, EF-1, Emanuel, 2022:018].

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 Covena (32.5482, -82.4197).

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 1022806. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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