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EF0 tornado in Coffee County, Georgia

Tornado September 26, 2024 · Coffee County, Georgia

EF0

Rating

0.5 mi

Path length

30 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 30 yards (0.02 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

In a rainband ahead of Hurricane Helene, a weak tornado formed

near Broxton, GA along George Deen Rd and HWY 268. A video of the

tornado was posted on social media. Minor structural damage to

homes and several trees down were reported in this area. Around 2:30 pm, the tornado was sighted on the ground near Highway 268 East. It damaged shingles and shifted a doublewide trailer off of its foundation at 2507 and 2807 Highway 268 East. Multiple trees were blown down with confirmed damage as 1668, 1700 and 1732 George Deen Road. Some trees fell on a home.

The wider storm

Hurricane Helene made landfall as a category 4 with peak winds of near 140 mph in the Florida Big

Bend just east of the Aucilla River Entrance in Taylor County, late Thursday evening September 26,

2024. Helene's main impact to southeast Georgia and northeast Florida was wind damage as it

tracked quickly north-northeast. The very powerful hurricane and the forward motion produced a

wide swath of wind damage across the forecast area with peak wind gusts 55 to 75 mph across the

eastern half of the area, and western zones up to 75 to 100 mph from the Suwannee Valley area

northward through interior southeast GA. The max wind gust of 100 mph was measured at the Alma

GA ASOS in the early morning hours of Friday September 27th. Given the strength of these winds,

widespread power outages, structure damage and downed or uprooted trees occurred across inland

southeast GA and portions of northeast FL. At least 1 tornado occurred, which was in Coffee county.

Maximum rainfall amounts of 3 to 5 inches were located over western half of the area.

Began near Broxton (31.6278, -82.8798).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1215251. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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