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EF2 tornado in Dougherty County, Georgia

Tornado March 2, 2007 · Dougherty County, Georgia

EF2

Rating

15.7 mi

Whole path

200 yd

Path width

$2.7M

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Mitchell County → Dougherty County → Worth County; 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 EF2 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF2 is considerable damage: roofs torn off well-built houses, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, consistent with estimated gusts of 111–135 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 EF-2 tornado continued on its northeast track from northern Mitchell County into southeastern Dougherty County. It ripped carports and roof shingles off several homes on County Line Road and Jenkins Road. It also snapped hundreds of trees before it crossed into western Worth County. Ten homes suffered minor damage and two were heavily damaged.

The wider storm

Severe thunderstorms developed during the afternoon of March 1 ahead of advancing warm front across southwest Georgia, producing several reports of wind damage. Later that evening into the predawn hours of March 2, a squall line formed ahead of a cold front, with several reports of wind damage and tornadoes across portions of southwest and south central Georgia. One of the tornadoes tore through a mobile home park just north of Newton, killing six and injuring three.

Began near Putney (31.4444, -84.0900).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Baker County 6 dead EF2 Worth County EF2 Worth County EF1 Tift County EF1 Clay County EF0 Lowndes County EF0 Quitman County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 22278. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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