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EF0 tornado in Monroe County, Georgia

Tornado May 3, 2025 · Monroe County, Georgia

EF0
Rating
2.5 mi
Path length
175 yd
Path width
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 175 yards (0.10 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

An EF0 Tornado with maximum winds of 75 to 80 mph touched down in

Southwestern Monroe County in the community of Culloden Saturday

evening May 3 2025 at approximately 1000 PM EDT. The tornado

formed within a strong line of thunderstorms which moved through

much of north and Central GA that Saturday Evening. The tornado

touched down just west of Culloden and moved across Lockett

street where a tree was snapped and a metal roof on an

outbuilding was damaged. The tornado continued east crossing

Norwood St where several trees where snapped and uprooted,

causing roof damage to a home and damage to a vehicle parked near

the tree. A few trees were snapped along US341 as the weak

tornado continued eastward through a mostly wooded region. A few

trees were snapped south of Hwy 74 east of Sullivan Road and

along Hwy 74 near the end of the path.

The wider storm

A QLCS moved through North and Central Georgia in the afternoon and evening hours of the 3rd. The line initially posed a robust wind threat with measured wind gusts of near 70 mph. As the line moved across central Georgia cells in the warm sector merged with the line initiating numerous quick spin-up tornadoes and requiring at least 10 tornado warnings. Many of the rotational signatures were shallow and only visible from the TATL radar.

Began near Culloden (32.8689, -84.1049).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1267991. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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