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EF0 tornado in Habersham County, Georgia

Tornado September 25, 2024 · Habersham County, Georgia

EF0

Rating

0.7 mi

Path length

25 yd

Path width

$2K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 25 yards (0.01 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

NWS analysis determined that a weak tornado touched down near the Annandale subdivision. A few trees were blown downed along an intermittent path and an outbuilding was destroyed at a sod farm.

The wider storm

A band of showers and embedded scattered thunderstorms developed across the southern Appalachians and vicinity in advance of a cold front. One of the storms produced severe weather, including a brief tornado in Habersham County, GA.

Began near Clarkesville (34.6540, -83.5130).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1259571. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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