EF1 tornado in Ware County, Georgia

Tornado March 9, 2024 · Ware County, Georgia

EF1

Rating

5.6 mi

Whole path

150 yd

Path width

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 150 yards (0.09 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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

The tornado touched down in an inaccessible marshy timberland in

northeastern Clinch County southeast of the Cogdell Community. The tornado then moved into Ware county with additional tree damage noted as it crossed old manor

Millwood Road just east of the county line. The storm weakened as

it continued east-northeast with only light timber damage where it

crossed Windmill Road. The tornado re-intensified as it approached

Manor Millwood Road South (CR-472) and produced the only

structural damage along its path. A metal outbuilding had half of its

tin roof removed, with some of it tossed nearly 300 yards

down-wind. The adjacent home suffered slight roof damage, while

several trees on the property were snapped or uprooted. Continuing

east just south of Highway 122, the tornado began to weaken a

final time. It crossed Farms Edge Road, producing sporadic tree

damage along and near the roadway. Special thanks to one of our Georgia media broadcast partners for information pertaining to this narrative.

The wider storm

High moisture content and the entire area in the warm sector ahead of an approaching pre-frontal squall line produced strong to severe storms and a couple of tornadoes.

Began near Manor (31.1599, -82.6596).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Brantley County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1164959. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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