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F0 tornado in Spalding County, Georgia

Tornado April 3, 2000 · Spalding County, Georgia

Rating

7.5 mi

Whole path

50 yd

Path width

Injury

$26K

Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What F0 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F0 meant light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken; the scale paired it with winds of 40–72 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

The storm weakened as it left Lamar county and the tornado lifted shortly after entering the extreme southeast part of Spalding county. The largely rural area sustained very little damage, mainly to trees and tree limbs, but the same converging pattern of debris was noted.

Began near Orchard Hill (33.1667, -84.2000).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F2 Polk County F1 Cherokee County F1 Gwinnett County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5137270. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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