EF0 tornado in Spalding County, Georgia

Tornado May 21, 2025 · Spalding County, Georgia

EF0

Rating

10.3 mi

Whole path

100 yd

Path width

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Spalding County → Henry County → Butts County → Henry County → Butts 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

An EF1 tornado touched down in extreme northeastern Spalding

county along Old McDonough road near Johnson Road early Wednesday

morning around 339 AM EDT May 21 2025. The tornado knocked over

a few trees on the west side of Hwy 155 before crossing the hwy

and ripping off the roof to a large barn. Two people were asleep

in a camping trailer near the barn when the tornado hit. They

claimed the camper lifted off the ground and slammed down

breaking the jacks supporting the front end of the camper.

Additionally roof material from the nearby barn slammed into the

camper and was spread eastward into a field area. The tornado

continued east crossing Amelia Drive snapping trees before

crossing into Henry County.

The wider storm

A loosely organized line of thunderstorms and supercells moved into northwest Georgia during the late evening hours of the 20th. Strong outflow interactions required numerous tornado warnings with multiple reports of winds over 60mph. Storms weakened slightly as they moved through the metro Atlanta, however a couple strong cells redeveloped in the early morning hours of the 21st southeast of the metro. These cells produced large hail, damaging winds, and even a brief tornado.

Began near Towalaga (33.3288, -84.1823).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF0 Cherokee County EF0 Gordon County EF0 Gordon County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1268481. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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