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EF0 tornado in Dooly County, Georgia

Tornado March 12, 2026 · Dooly County, Georgia

EF0

Rating

2.4 mi

Path length

100 yd

Path width

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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 EF0 tornado briefly spun up east of Pinehurst GA near Everett Road in Dooly

County. The tornado hit a small house along Rocky Ford Road blowing sections of metal roof off and into trees downwind of the house. The tornado also flipped a center pivot in a field nearby. The tornado lifted as it crossed Pinehurst Hawkinsville Rd and 3rd District Road.

The wider storm

A strong cold front and associated QLCS system moved through central Georgia in the early morning hours of the 12th. Storms within the line were able to produce a few spots of wind damage, however the main hazard ended up being the numerous short lived and brief spin-up tornados which occurred in central Georgia. The strongest tornado was an EF2 near Marshallville.

Began near Pinehurst (32.2018, -83.7166).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Macon County EF1 Forsyth County EF1 Bibb County EF1 Peach County EF1 Twiggs County EF1 Laurens County EF0 Baldwin County EF0 Laurens County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1328596. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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