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EF1 tornado in Henry County, Georgia

Tornado May 21, 2025 · Henry County, Georgia

EF1
Rating
10.3 mi
Whole path
300 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 300 yards (0.17 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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 east crossing Amelia Drive snapping trees before

crossing into Henry County along Collins Drive snapping and

uprooting a few trees. The storm continued ESE crossing Lester

Mill Road snapping a few trees before crossing I75 near LG

Griffin Road. Several trees were snapped along Hossannah Road

which runs along the east side of I75. The storm continued east

within a largely uninhabited area before reaching a neighborhood

along Locust Road, in the community of Locust Grove. Numerous

trees were downed along Locust Road, Grove Pointe Ct, Grove Point

Way, and Grove Point Dr, including several onto homes in that

area. The tornado briefly entered Butts county before re-entering Henry county and returning back to Butts.

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 Locust Grove (33.3200, -84.1490).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1268482. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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