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EF1 tornado in Turner County, Georgia

Tornado March 2, 2007 · Turner County, Georgia

EF1
Rating
7.9 mi
Whole path
150 yd
Path width
$1.4M
Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 150 yards (0.09 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 EF-1 tornado moved from northern Tift County into southeastern Turner County. Many trees on T & C Circle along the Tift-Turner county line were snapped and laid along the fence on the rural road. Roofs were peeled off large metal hay barns. One large barn was destroyed with several others damaged. A pivot irrigation system was damaged. Fifteen homes were damaged, of which two were destroyed, ten with major damage, and three with moderate damage.

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 Sycamore (31.5984, -83.5460).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Baker County 6 deadEF2 Mitchell CountyEF2 Worth CountyEF2 Worth CountyEF1 Clay CountyEF0 Lowndes CountyEF0 Quitman County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 22394. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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