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EF1 tornado in Elbert County, Georgia

Tornado June 9, 2025 · Elbert County, Georgia

EF1
Rating
1.5 mi
Whole path
200 yd
Path width
$20K
Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Elbert County → McCormick County, South Carolina; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 200 yards (0.11 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

NWS storm survey found a brief tornado touched down in Bobby Brown State Park, downing trees across Bobby Brown State Park Road before intensifying as it crossed Ranger Road. Dozens of trees were snapped and uprooted as the tornado approached a cove along the Savannah River. Some structural damage to pavilions occurred at the Bobby Brown Recreational Center before the tornado crossed the Savannah River into McCormick County, SC just east of Ranger Dr.

The wider storm

Scattered thunderstorms developed across north Georgia during the afternoon and evening. One of the storms produced a brief, weak tornado as it moved over extreme southeast Elbert County during the evening.

Began near Fortsonia (33.9730, -82.5850).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1279924. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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