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EF0 tornado in Clinch County, Georgia

Tornado January 4, 2023 · Clinch County, Georgia

EF0
Rating
0.6 mi
Path length
300 yd
Path width
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 300 yards (0.17 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 line of thunderstorms tracked across Clinch county in the early afternoon and produced a brief EF0 tornado over south-central Clinch county. The tornado moved across US Highway 441 about 9 miles north of Needmore and then lifted quickly a short distance east of the Highway. Damage was due to estimated peak winds of 75 to 85 mph and included several pine trees downed and snapped, a manufactured outhouse smashed, a service station canopy damaged, a RV vehicle flipped over and moved about 15-20 ft and property damage to a hunting RV single wide with part of the tin roof torn off.

The wider storm

A line of pre-frontal severe storms, some of which produced tornadoes, tracked across SE GA during the afternoon and early evening hours. A tornado watch was in effect for portions of the area.

Began near Headlight (30.8120, -82.6477).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

2 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF1 Pierce CountyEF0 Charlton County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1068509. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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