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EF0 tornado in Camden County, Georgia

Tornado July 17, 2023 · Camden County, Georgia

EF0
Rating
0.7 mi
Path length
10 yd
Path width
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 10 yards (0.01 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 video of a funnel cloud that became a landspout was shared by EM. The landspout formed near St. Mary's near 401 East Coyners Street around 4:17 pm and persisted through 4:22 pm where outflow boundaries converged. There was broad rotation in the video around a thin, elevated condensation funnel. Debris was seen rotating around the condensation funnel and was mostly vegetation (leaves). Some objects were blown around on the ground, but significant damage did not occur. There was also some wind blown debris near the Meeting Street Boat Ramp in St. Marys.

The wider storm

Broad troughing was in the low and mid-levels across the region with prevailing SW flow and above normal moisture content over the local area. High DCAPE over 1000 J/kg favored wet downbursts in stronger cells.

Began near St Marys (30.7241, -81.5438).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1107913. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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