F1 tornado — Pike County, Georgia

F1 tornado in Pike County, Georgia

Tornado April 3, 2000 · Pike 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 F1 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F1 meant moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken; the scale paired it with winds of 73–112 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

Sight survey by NWS employees, together with newspaper and public reports, confirmed an F0 to F1 tornado touched down in northeastern PIke county near the intersection of Gresham Road and Kendrick Road. It crossed the extreme northwest corner of Lamar county and moved into extreme southeast Spalding county before lifting. The storm path had a total length of approximately 7.5 miles and an average width of 50 yards, but was occasionally as wide as 100 yards. Four homes sustained damage. Most observed damage was shingles blown off roofs or fallen trees and limbs on houses.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5138945. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

F1 tornado in Pike County, Georgia

What the National Weather Service wrote

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