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EF0 tornado in Telfair County, Georgia

Tornado October 12, 2022 · Telfair County, Georgia

EF0

Rating

0.4 mi

Path length

100 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 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 crossed Hwy 149 about a mile southeast of Racetrack Road, southeast of the town of McRae in Telfair County. The tornado was on the ground for less than a 1/2 mile and snapped or uprooted trees along its path.

The wider storm

A strong cold front pushed through central Georgia on the evening of October 12th, producing showers and embedded strong to isolated severe thunderstorms.

Began near Scotland (31.9825, -82.8483).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1063264. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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