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EF1 tornado in Stewart County, Georgia

Tornado November 23, 2014 · Stewart County, Georgia

EF1

Rating

0.5 mi

Path length

100 yd

Path width

$5K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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 found that an EF-1 tornado, with maximum wind speeds of 104 MPH, touched down in central Stewart County just southwest of the city of Lumpkin. The tornado tracked north northeast for less than a mile before lifting causing mainly damage to trees along Green Grove Road. [11/23/14: Tornado #2, County #1-1, EF1, Stewart, 2014:019].

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 Lumpkin (32.0315, -84.8078).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Monroe County EF1 Houston County EF1 Barbour County EF1 Chattahoochee County EF1 Lamar County EF0 Talbot County EF0 Upson County EF0 Lamar County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 549857. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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