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EF0 tornado in Troup County, Georgia

Tornado June 8, 2014 · Troup County, Georgia

EF0

Rating

1.8 mi

Path length

280 yd

Path width

$150K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 280 yards (0.16 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF0 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF0 is light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 65–85 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

A National Weather Service survey team determined that an overnight squall line interacted with an outflow boundary to produce a brief EF-1 tornado just east of West Point Lake in the Heritage Hills subdivision, where a couple of trees were snapped and uprooted at touchdown. The tornado continued to the southeast where additional trees were snapped and uprooted. One tree fell on three cars, crushing them. The tornado continued to the next block where it destroyed a greenhouse. The tornado lifted near Georgia Highway 29. Overall there were 50 large trees downed, several of which were on houses and vehicles. A couple of additional houses had shingle and siding damage as well.

[06/08/14: Tornado #1, County #1-1, EF1, Troup, 2014:009].

The wider storm

A strong shortwave trough moved through the Southeast late on the 7th and early on the 8th, forming a squall line that pushed across central Georgia during the very early morning hours. A weak tornado formed in Troup County, and with a few reports of wind damage, mainly downed trees, as well.

Began near Crowder (33.0113, -85.1496).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 523155. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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