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F1 tornado in Cherokee County, Georgia

Tornado May 6, 2003 · Cherokee County, Georgia

F1
Rating
1.0 mi
Path length
50 yd
Path width
$10K
Damage as recorded
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

NOAA recorded where this tornado touched down but not where it lifted, so it appears as a point. 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

The Cherokee county Emergency Management Director witnessed and conducted a survey on an F0 to weak F1 tornado that tore a short one-mile path through the Keithsburg community just north of Canton. The tornado touched down just one mile north of the intersection of Interstate 575 and Georgia Highway 5 traveling east at approximately 50 miles an hour for around 1 minute, terminating on the east side of Keithsburg near Green Road. Tin roofs to the Haynes Lumber Company near Interstate-575 were damaged along with damage to a rental home on Green Road in Keithsburg. Multiple points of damage to trees and power lines in the area was also noted. The Emergency Management Director and the local Sheriff had spotted a funnel cloud just north of Canton earlier and the Emergency Management Director witnessed the tornado at 12:56 pm EDT. No injuries or fatalities were reported during the incident.

Began near Keithsburg (33.0500, -84.1500).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F1 Madison CountyF0 Coweta County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5361866. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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