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EF2 tornado in McDuffie County, Georgia

Tornado March 1, 2007 · McDuffie County, Georgia

EF2

Rating

11.7 mi

Whole path

250 yd

Path width

Injuries

$700K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Warren County → McDuffie County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 250 yards (0.14 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF2 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF2 is considerable damage: roofs torn off well-built houses, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, consistent with estimated gusts of 111–135 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

An EF2 started in Warren county and moved through McDuffie county taking down numerous trees and powerlines. The twister moved along hwy 278 to Thomson then along hwy 150 to I-20. Several vehicles were totaled and many homes and a private school had moderate damage. Ground survey found a damage path of 9 miles in McDuffie county but an areal survey found the total length to be 15 miles. There were no injuries or deaths.

The wider storm

Supercells moved across the southern states and into GA producing tornadoes across the region.

Began near Thomson (33.4199, -82.5600).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 10974. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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