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EF0 tornado in Fulton County, Georgia

Tornado October 14, 2014 · Fulton County, Georgia

EF0

Rating

5.6 mi

Whole path

75 yd

Path width

$20K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Fulton County → Fulton County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 75 yards (0.04 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

NWS Storm Survey team found a tornado touched down near Camp Creek Parkway and traveled north across Campbellton Road to Fairburn Road in the Ben Hill community. EF0 damage was indicated with maximum wind speeds around 75 MPH and a path width of 75 yards. Damage was confined mainly to trees snapped or uprooted. [10/14/14: Tornado #2, County #1-1, EF0, Fulton, 2014:012].

The wider storm

Very warm and moist air from the Gulf of Mexico prevailed over Georgia in advance of a strong storm system that moved through the eastern United States. During the early morning hours a line of thunderstorms moved through parts of West Central Georgia and continued into the Atlanta metropolitan area and eventually portions of East and Central Georgia. A low-level jet developed on the back side of this line of thunderstorms which was conducive for the development of damaging winds and tornadoes. This line of thunderstorms with heavy rain interacted with a dissipating stationary front early in the morning over North Georgia to produce flash flooding in Dade County in Northwest Georgia.

Began near Ben Hill (33.6552, -84.5147).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Harris County EF1 Cobb County EF1 Fulton County EF0 Fulton County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 547172. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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