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F1 tornado in Fulton County, Georgia

Tornado April 8, 2006 · Fulton County, Georgia

F1
Rating
11.0 mi
Path length
200 yd
Path width
$1.5M
Damage as recorded
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 200 yards (0.11 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What F1 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F1 meant moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken; the scale paired it with winds of 73–112 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 storm survey conducted by the National Weather Service in Peachtree City, GA determined that the F1 tornado that began near Noonday in Cobb county continued eastward marking out a path approximately 11-miles long across North Fulton county. Considerable damage was noted just south of Crabapple where a car wash and detail shop was destroyed, a gas station suffered major damage, and a nearby strip mall suffered minor damage. Hundreds of trees were blown down along Rucker Road. The damage continued eastward into the Alpharetta area where 40 homes were damaged by downed trees, five of which sustained major damage. A dental building in Alpharetta also suffered major damage when a downed tree caused damage to the sprinkler system, flooding the building with thousands of gallons of water causing major damage to the historic building. All-in-all, local newspapers reported that 149 homes in Fulton county sustained moderate to serious damage, some of which were a total loss. Within Fulton county, the tornado had a path length of 11 miles with a path width ranging from 10 to 200 yards. The entire path length of this tornado, including Cobb and Fulton counties, was 18-miles long.

Began near Mountain Park (34.4000, -85.0333).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F2 Polk CountyF1 Cobb CountyF0 Banks CountyF0 Polk CountyF0 Cobb County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5501912. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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