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F0 tornado in Fayette County, Georgia

Tornado July 6, 2005 · Fayette County, Georgia

F0
Rating
1.0 mi
Path length
440 yd
Path width
$1.9M
Damage as recorded
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

A National Weather Service damage survey team determined that an F0 tornado touched down approximately two miles southeast of Fayetteville near Hilo Road and traveled on the ground approximately one mile to the north, terminating near Jeff Davis in southeast Fayetteville. Hundreds of trees were blown down, twisted, and uprooted along the path of the tornado, many causing damage to dozens of homes and vehicles. Trees fell through the roof of several homes. A couple of businesses in southeast Fayetteville reported extensive damage, with the roof blown off one building on Highway 85 Parkway. The tornado combined with other thunderstorm wind events in the county during the evening resulted in up to 50 percent of the county being without power for several hours during the evening. The tornado path length was determined to be one mile and the path width one-quarter mile.

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F2 Henry CountyF1 Clayton CountyF1 Henry CountyF0 Meriwether County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5468428. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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