EF0 tornado in Spalding County, Georgia

Tornado April 7, 2025 · Spalding County, Georgia

EF0

Rating

18.2 mi

Whole path

100 yd

Path width

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Coweta County → Spalding County → Fayette County → Spalding County → Spalding 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 continued

ENE into Spalding county crossing Hollonville Road, Fairview

Road, and Hardy Road uprooting and snapping several trees.

The wider storm

A line of thunderstorms moved into northwest GA in the early morning hours of the 6th. Storms were weakening as instability continued to fall, however some portions of the line were able to develop stronger wind gusts. The line surged northward as the day progressed and delayed the arrival of the line for areas further south. This allowed for instability to redevelop. As the line moved into central GA, storms strengthened causing sporadic wind damage and two brief tornados (one in Columbus and one in Macon). The line of storms surged ahead of the incoming cold front and tapered off through the overnight hours. Storms then refired along the cold front (behind the initial line) during the morning hours of the 7th producing several rotations requiring tornado warnings in the southern CWA and a tornado which moved from Spalding to Henry county.

Began near Blantons Mill (33.2360, -84.5020).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Muscogee County EF1 Twiggs County EF0 Henry County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1258753. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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