EF0 tornado in Emanuel County, Georgia

Tornado April 5, 2022 · Emanuel County, Georgia

EF0

Rating

6.9 mi

Whole path

50 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 50 yards (0.03 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 southwest of US1 just south of Sand

Hill Rd causing minor roof damage to a home and snapping a few

trees. [4/5/22: Tornado #16, County #1/1, EF-0, Emanuel, 2022:019].

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 Kirby (32.5211, -82.3086).

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 1022808. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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