EF0 tornado in Bulloch County, Georgia

A National Weather Service Storm Survey Team confirmed an EF-0 tornado with an estimated maximum wind speed of 80 mph northeast of Brooklet, Georgia in Bulloch County occurring from 608 PM to 609 PM. The brief tornado started just south of the Brooklet-Leefield Road and Clito Road intersection in a farm field along a thin line of trees where several hardwood trees were uprooted. The tornado then traveled across the field to a pine plantation where it uprooted and snapped nearly a third of the pine trees. A drone flight confirmed a distinctive convergent pattern in the trees. The tornado then quickly lifted once it entered back into the adjacent farm field.

A strong mid-level shortwave rounding the base of a parent low centered across the Great Lakes region encountered an environment displaying a warm and moist airmass, leading to thunderstorm development across the Southeast United States. Thunderstorms congealed into clusters with bowing segments, eventually sweeping through the region within an environment displaying unusually strong mid-level flow, moderate to high levels of instability, strong downdraft convective available potential energy (DCAPE) and low-level backing winds supporting high levels of 0-3 KM storm relative helicity. Severe thunderstorms developed as a result, producing straight-line wind damage and a few tornadoes across southeast Georgia during late afternoon into early evening hours.