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EF0 tornado in McDuffie County, Georgia

Tornado February 18, 2009 · McDuffie County, Georgia

EF0

Rating

19.7 mi

Whole path

220 yd

Path width

$300K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Wilkes County → McDuffie County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 220 yards (0.12 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

Storm survey found the tornado path coming out of Wilkes county into McDuffie county. Only trees were in the path of the tornado with many being taken down just south of the lakeshore.

The wider storm

Supercells developed of much of Georgia and did considerable damage. There was one fatality in Atlanta's area with several injuries.

Began near Thmson Mcduffee Arpt (33.6420, -82.5840).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 146677. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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