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EF1 tornado in Laurens County, Georgia

Tornado April 6, 2022 · Laurens County, Georgia

EF1
Rating
4.9 mi
Path length
150 yd
Path width
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

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

A QLCS EF1 tornado formed along Rebie Road in southern Laurens

County moving ESE through a heavily wooded region snapping and

uprooting trees before reaching Lord Road. 2 large grain bins were

dented, numerous trees were snapped or uprooted, a home sustained

roof damage and a small shed was destroyed. The tornado was at

its maximum intensity in this area before moving into a heavily

wooded area. The tornado crossed Chicken Road and Hwy 338 snapping

a few trees before lifting east of Hwy 338 in a wooded area. [4/6/22: Tornado #3, County #1/1, EF-1, Laurens, 2022:023].

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 Laurens Hill (32.4901, -83.1557).

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 Dodge CountyEF1 Johnson CountyEF1 Emanuel CountyEF1 Bleckley CountyEF0 Wilcox CountyEF0 Baldwin CountyEF0 Treutlen CountyEF0 Twiggs County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1022815. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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