EF1 Tornado — Dodge, Georgia

2024-05-09 · near Dubois, Dodge, Georgia

Event narrative

An EF1 tornado with maximum winds at 90 mph touched down

Thursday, May 9th at At 12:50 PM EDT. EF0 damage to trees was

observed along Cochran Hwy roughly a tenth of a mile northwest of

the center of Dubois. The tornado tracked southeastward crossing

Wilson Woodward Road where a swath within a stand of hardwood

trees in a field were snapped and uprooted. The tornado continued

southeastward paralleling Bell Line Road before turning ESE and

lifting up a metal roof off the awning of a home and snapping

large branches from trees. The tornado then crossed Bell Line

Road and lifted shingles off the roof of a home and lifted the

roof off of a small outbuilding. A little further southeast

the tornado intensified to its strongest point where EF1

damage to trees was observed on Chester

Highway and in the woods along Gum Swamp Road. As the tornado

approached the intersection of Gum Swamp Road and Dublin Hwy,

EF1 damage was observed as well as EF0 damage to a small

outbuilding. A TDS signature appears on the KJGX radar near the

beginning of the EF1 damage along Belt Line Rd and remains

visible through the Dublin hwy damage. The tornado continued

east southeast producing EF0 tree damage generally along and

north of a line paralleling Glyen Hickman Road/Golden Road before

turning eastward and dissipating.

Wider weather episode

Several waves of severe thunderstorms moved through the area from the evening hours of the 8th through the early afternoon hours of the 9th. Initial convection ahead of the first line was able to tap into ample shear to produce tornadic thunderstorms in Northwest GA. This threat transitioned more into a wind event as the first line moved through the morning of the 9th. This line continued southward into the metro causing sporadic wind damage. Thunderstorms weakened as they moved south of I20, however another line of severe made its way out of AL/TN, producing further wind damage in the North. The initial line slowly moved into the southern portion of the CWA where conditions were not as worked over and shear was stronger. Storms re-strengthened, with several producing brief tornados.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1186081. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.