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F0 tornado in Laurens County, Georgia

Tornado December 28, 2005 · Laurens County, Georgia

Rating

0.5 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

$1K

Damage as recorded

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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 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

The Laurens County Emergency Management Director confirmed that a brief F0 tornado touched down just east of the Dodge county line in southwest Laurens county between Cadwell and Cedar Grove. The tornado path was approximately 1/2 mile long and 50 yards wide. The tornado remained in a largely rural area between Georgia Highway 126 and U.S. Highway 441. Damage was confined entirely to trees.

Began near Cadwell (32.4333, -83.6167).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F1 Laurens County F1 Johnson County F0 Pulaski County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5489483. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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