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EF1 tornado in Colquitt County, Georgia

Tornado April 7, 2025 · Colquitt County, Georgia

EF1
Rating
0.8 mi
Path length
150 yd
Path width
$10K
Damage as recorded
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 150 yards (0.09 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

The same parent supercell that produced a tornado in Grady/Thomas County continued to track northwest and produced another tornado touchdown in SW Colquitt County. This tornado touched down in a wooded area just east of Monroe Jackson Road, but west of GA-202. Numerous large pines were snapped or uprooted in this area. Snapped or uprooted pines fell on an outbuilding and a home in the area. The occupant in the home was not injured. The tornado continued through a wooded area before reaching another residence, causing loss of roof shingles to a portion of the roof frame. A storage shed to the rear of the property was also affected by tornadic winds and a falling pine tree. The tornado crossed GA-202 and began to weaken while still causing occasional damage to pine trees and ultimately toppling an irrigation pivot system on the east side of GA-202 before lifting with the final parent supercell dissipating across SW Colquitt County.

The wider storm

Severe storms ahead a cold front produced wind damage a few tornadoes across portions of the Florida big bend and southwest Georgia.

Began near Center Hill (31.0986, -83.9551).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1244185. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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