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EF1 tornado in Coweta County, Georgia

Tornado May 27, 2024 · Coweta County, Georgia

EF1
Rating
3.5 mi
Path length
100 yd
Path width
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 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

A brief tornado began near Payton Rd and Boone Rd in northwest

Coweta County just east of Chattahoochee Bend State Park, downing

trees, several falling on homes. The tornado traveled east-

southeast along Boone Rd downing additional trees with the most

intense damage with maximum winds estimated at 90 mph occurred

near the 100 block of Boone Rd where dozens of trees were blown

down, some on homes. Fortunately, the tornado lifted shortly

after this time.

The wider storm

A line of thunderstorms moved across North and Central GA. Storms first started in Northeast GA during the morning hours and moved to the Southeast through the afternoon. Storms mostly posed a damaging wind threat, however a few storms were able to utilize interacting outflow boundaries to form a couple quick spin-up tornados.

Began near Handy (33.4316, -84.9501).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Harris County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1186095. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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