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F1 tornado in Lamar County, Georgia

Tornado April 3, 2000 · Lamar 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

As the storm continued from Pike county across the extreme northwest corner of Lamar county, large tree limbs were knocked down on another house. One man was injured when struck by a falling tree limb on Vaughn Road. Sections of a fence were torn down and other trees and debris were found in a converging pattern caused by a rotating storm.

Began near Milner (33.1500, -84.2500).

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 5138948. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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