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EF0 tornado in Pulaski County, Georgia

Tornado November 23, 2014 · Pulaski County, Georgia

EF0
Rating
6.4 mi
Whole path
50 yd
Path width
$55K
Damage as recorded

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

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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 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 NWS storm survey team determined that the tornado that touched down in Houston county moved into Pulaski County causing EF-0 damage with maximum wind speeds of 75 MPH. Trees were snapped and uprooted and a shed and fence were damaged before the tornado lifted near Highway 129. [11/23/14: Tornado #9, County #2-2, EF0, Houston-Pulaski, 2014:026].

The wider storm

Moderate instability and strong shear associated with a deepening upper-level trough and surface low produced scattered thunderstorms across portions of Central Georgia. Several severe thunderstorms with damaging winds and several tornadoes occurred in the afternoon and early evening hours along and behind a warm front lifting north across the state.

Began near Browndale (32.3391, -83.5768).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 549850. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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