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EF0 tornado in Carroll County, Georgia

Tornado March 31, 2025 · Carroll County, Georgia

EF0

Rating

5.3 mi

Path length

300 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 300 yards (0.17 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

The tornado touched down just west of Hwy 27 South near Oak Grove Road and

tracked east-northeast bringing down trees along a path to just

east of Clem. Specific damage, mainly trees down (some on homes)

occurred along Whooping Creek Road, Whooping Creek Church Road,

Laurel Lane and Cypress Circle. Note, like the other tornadoes from

this event around the area, this tornado was likely not on the

ground the entire time with strongest winds occurring on the

south and east side of the circulation as the storm moved across

the area. Other damage was noted around the southern part of the

county where 50 to 60 mph winds in broader area occurred in

association with the line of severe storms.

The wider storm

A cold-front initiated a line of thunderstorms across north and central GA through the afternoon hours of the 31st. Storms brought damaging winds along the I20 corridor and south as well as six quick spin-up tornadoes. The strongest being an EF1 between McDonough and Stockbridge crossing Hwy 75. There were also a couple reports of quarter size hail southeast of Macon.

Began near Plowshare (33.5159, -85.0846).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Henry County EF0 Coweta County EF0 Peach County EF0 Fayette County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1252447. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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