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EF0 tornado in Laurens County, Georgia

Tornado March 25, 2023 · Laurens County, Georgia

EF0
Rating
1.5 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 started in Cadwell on Academy St and lifted a porch roof off a manufactured home and destroyed a shed as well as a few trees and limbs downed. Minor, sporadic damage followed, as the tornado downed or snapped several small to medium sized trees as it moved southeast before lifting southeast of Snow Hill

Church Rd near Graham Rd.

The wider storm

A 2-pronged threat affected north and central Georgia during the morning and evening of March 25th as a cold front pushed through and stalled over the area. The front moved through and weakened over north Georgia through the morning, producing isolated reports of damaging wind gust. By the afternoon, this front slowed and stalled across central Georgia, serving as a catalyst for additional severe thunderstorm development during the afternoon with multiple reports of large hail and damaging wind gusts.

Began near Cadwell (32.3410, -83.0395).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1091336. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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