EF1 tornado in Chattahoochee County, Georgia

Tornado November 23, 2014 · Chattahoochee County, Georgia

EF1

Rating

21.1 mi

Whole path

75 yd

Path width

$32K

Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 75 yards (0.04 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 107 MPH, touched down in Chattahoochee County around the town of Cusseta along U.S. Highway 27. The tornado tracked northeast around 18 miles mile before crossing into Marion County near County Road 65 and Little Juniper Creek. The tornado caused mainly damage to trees with numerous hardwood and softwood trees snapped or uprooted. [11/23/14: Tornado #3, County #1-3, EF1, Chattahoochee-Marion-Talbot, 2014:020].

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 Cusseta (32.2982, -84.7905).

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 Stewart County EF1 Barbour County EF1 Lamar County EF0 Talbot County EF0 Upson County EF0 Lamar County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 550467. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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