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EF0 tornado in Coweta County, Georgia

Tornado March 31, 2025 · Coweta County, Georgia

EF0
Rating
5.0 mi
Path length
250 yd
Path width
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 250 yards (0.14 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

A tornado touched down in central Coweta County on March 31, 2025 at approximately 12:32 PM EDT. The tornado spun up within a strong line of thunderstorms

moving rapidly towards the northeast. The initial impact area was

along Lower Fayetteville Road just east of Interstate 85 in the

city of Newnan. From there, the tornado traveled northeast,

intermittently downing large branches and trees along a narrow

path crossing Shenandoah Blvd, Sullivan Rd and Lora Smith Rd. The

tornado reached peak intensity as it moved through the Legacy

Estates subdivision where it snapped multiple trees. The tornado

weakened as it continued northeast across Sharpsburg-McCollum Rd,

before lifting around 12:39 PM EDT near the Manchester

subdivision. While the damage was not always constant along the

entire 5-mile path, it was consistent enough to suggest a

circulation was present and intermittent up to the maximum

intensity. Additionally, damage surveyed coincided with where

radar data suggested where a tornado was possible.

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 Mc Bride (33.3746, -84.7570).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1252455. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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