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EF0 tornado in Charlton County, Georgia

Tornado March 16, 2025 · Charlton County, Georgia

EF0
Rating
6.8 mi
Path length
10 yd
Path width
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 10 yards (0.01 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

At approximately 1052 AM EDT, a weak and narrow EF0 tornado

touched down near a dirt road just off of Crews Community Rd in

Winokur, GA where it snapped several small healthy trees. The

tornado then continued east-northeastward along Crews Community

Road just west of the Winokur town center where it snapped several

other small tress and large branches. The most damage was observed

near the intersection of County Road 96, Crews Community Rd, and

Samuel Crews Rd near the center of Winokur as well as crossing

Highway 301 just to the north of the center of Winokur. Damage in

this area included the tops of several softwood trees were snapped,

many small & large branches were broken, a large shed was

destroyed, shingles were blown off a couple of houses, siding was ripped off a house causing partial building damage, and a

large tree snapped near the base of the trunk and fell on

powerlines. The tornado then crossed the Charlton/Brantley county

line near a heavily forested area before ending near Riverside Rd

just north of Big Oak, GA, where several small branches were

broken and a small tree was snapped near the base of the trunk.

The wider storm

A strong pre-frontal squall line moved across the region during the day. A slight risk of severe storms was in place for the local area with bulk shear of 45-60 kts phased with diurnal instability and 0-3 km SRH near 300 s2/m2 posing a tornado threat, especially for locations north of the Interstate 10 corridor. A couple of tornadoes impacted the local area with other reports of wind damage.

Began near Winokur (31.0328, -82.0430).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1242362. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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