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F0 tornado in Banks County, Georgia

Tornado April 8, 2006 · Banks County, Georgia

Rating

0.2 mi

Path length

100 yd

Path width

$350K

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 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

A damage survey conducted by the Banks County Emergency Management Director and the National Weather Service concluded that a brief F0 tornado touched down just north of Interstate-85 at 363 Dodd Road (which parallels the interstate) completely destroying one chicken house and removing another from its foundation. Large pieces of metal from the chicken house were wrapped around an adjacent silo.

Began near Five Pts (34.4833, -84.5500).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F2 Polk County F1 Cobb County F1 Fulton County F0 Polk County F0 Cobb County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5501987. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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