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F2 tornado in Camden County, Georgia

Tornado October 2, 1994 · Camden County, Georgia

Rating

0.2 mi

Path length

300 yd

Path width

Injury

$5.0M

Damage as recorded

What F2 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F2 meant considerable damage: roofs torn off well-built houses, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted; the scale paired it with winds of 113–157 mph, figures later judged too high, especially toward the top of the scale, and revised downward in the Enhanced Fujita scale. Ratings then, as now, came from the damage.

What the National Weather Service wrote

The tornado touched down at Bartlett and St. Mary's Streets. Evidence of damage was found along Wheeler St., Norris St., and New Point Peter Rd. before the tornado lifted by the Cypress Lakes Subdivision. Eighty homes were caught in the path of the tornado as it moved northeast. Ten of these homes, mostly one-story wood, were destroyed. Five trailor homes were also toppled. One female suffered two sprained ankles when the tornado destroyed her home.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 10319571. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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