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F2 tornado in Colquitt County, Georgia

Tornado February 14, 2000 · Colquitt County, Georgia

Rating

6.0 mi

Whole path

200 yd

Path width

Death

Injuries

$2.5M

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Colquitt County → Tift 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 F2 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F2 meant considerable damage: roofs torn off well-built houses, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted; the scale paired it with winds of 113–157 mph, figures later judged too high, especially toward the top of the scale, and revised downward in the Enhanced Fujita scale. Ratings then, as now, came from the damage.

What the National Weather Service wrote

A strong tornado tore through extreme northeast Colquitt County near Crosland toppling trees and power lines before it moved into extreme southwest Tift County. Several mobile homes were damaged. One woman was killed in a mobile home just northeast of Crosland when a large tree and another mobile home were blown against her home. Colquitt County was declared a federal disaster area. Reported by a amateur radio operator and the Colquitt County EMA.

Began near Crosland (31.3167, -83.6333).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F3 Mitchell County 11 dead F3 Grady County 6 dead F3 Mitchell County 1 dead F3 Thomas County F1 Colquitt County F1 Decatur County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5132159. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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