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EF0 tornado in Fayette County, Georgia

Tornado December 29, 2024 · Fayette County, Georgia

EF0
Rating
1.6 mi
Path length
100 yd
Path width
$10K
Damage as recorded
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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 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

An EF0 tornado with max winds of 80 mph developed in the comma head region of the QLCS and traveled east northeast 1.6 miles near the northern parts of Lake Horton southwest of Woolsey. Only a few trees were downed with numerous large branches knocked down. No structures were known to be damaged.

The wider storm

A QLCS (squall-line) moved through North and Central Georgia in the overnight hours of the 29th and 30th. There was high uncertainty as to how far into the state severe conditions could reach given the presence of weakening Cold-Air Damming (CAD) as far west as the ATL metro. Several storms produced sustained damaging winds. Storm surveys and radar analysis determined there were 6 tornadoes overnight, including 3 EF-1 and 3 EF-0. The longest tornado damage track was from an EF-1 in Meriwether County that produced damage along a 24-mile path. Numerous trees were snapped or uprooted with a number of trees also falling on and damaging homes, vehicles, and other structures.

Began near Fytville Mccombs Arp (33.3379, -84.4562).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

5 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1228333. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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