EF0 tornado in Houston County, Georgia

Tornado March 31, 2025 · Houston County, Georgia

EF0

Rating

10.5 mi

Whole path

100 yd

Path width

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Peach County → Houston County → Houston County → Bibb County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 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 began in Centerville near Watson Blvd and Margie

Dr just 4 miles south of and 2 minutes after the first tornado

started in northern Peach County. This tornado traveled

quickly northeast then east-northeast through Centerville and

into northern parts of Warner Robins for a total of 3.6 miles,

downing hundreds of trees, many of which fell on approx.

100 homes and numerous vehicles resulting in some entrapments

but, thankfully, no injuries. Maximum winds were 75 mph.

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 Centerville (32.6184, -83.6937).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Henry County EF0 Carroll County EF0 Coweta County EF0 Fayette County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1252499. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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