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EF0 tornado in De Kalb County, Georgia

Tornado January 3, 2023 · De Kalb County, Georgia

EF0

Rating

0.2 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 touched down and dissipated quickly in the Spring Lake neighborhood off Evans Mill Rd. The tornado only traveled 100 yards within a minute, but downed

dozens of trees which fell on and damaged several homes.

The wider storm

A strong developing system over brought moist southerly winds across the north and central Georgia, creating isolated severe thunderstorms and flash flooding on the afternoon and evening of January 3rd. The severe weather threat continued into Wednesday, January 4th, as the storm progressed eastward and brought a cold front across the area, producing isolated damaging wind gusts.

Began near Klondike (33.6834, -84.1400).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Heard County EF1 Washington County EF0 Coweta County EF0 Jefferson County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1074974. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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