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EF1 tornado in Grady County, Georgia

Tornado April 7, 2025 · Grady County, Georgia

EF1

Rating

8.6 mi

Whole path

150 yd

Path width

$100K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Leon County, Florida → Grady County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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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

This is a continuation of the Leon County EF1 tornado into Grady county. A tornado touched down in Killearn Lakes Neighborhood on Bass Bay Dr, snapping and uprooting several trees and knocking trees down on a couple of homes. The tornado moved northeastward, crossing Ten Oaks Dr, Deerlake Rd N, and Buck Point Rd before damaging a couple of single family homes off Buck Point Rd. The extensive tree damage in Killearn Lakes and damage to the homes off Buck Point Rd were the most severe, earning a rating of high-end EF1 with max winds of 105 mph. The tornado then passed over Lake Iamonia before crossing Highway 319 (Thomasville Rd) about a mile south of County Road 12 where it continued to snap and uproot pine trees. It then continued to snap and uproot pine trees as it crossed Sunny Hill Road and crossed into Grady County Georgia, where it finally lifted over a private plantation just west of Forshallee Rd.

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 Moncrief (30.6786, -84.1355).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Colquitt County EF1 Grady County EF0 Early County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1244205. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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