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EF0 tornado in Upson County, Georgia

Tornado November 23, 2014 · Upson County, Georgia

EF0

Rating

11.0 mi

Whole path

200 yd

Path width

$45K

Damage as recorded

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

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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 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 found that an EF-2 tornado, with maximum wind speeds of 130 MPH, touched down in Upson County on the west side of Thomaston around the intersection of State Highway 74 and W. Main Street. The tornado tracked northeast around 8.5 miles mile before crossing into Lamar County near north of Mud Bridge Road and Rocky bottom Road. Numerous hardwood and softwood trees were uprooted or snapped along the path of the tornado. The tornado reached its peak intensity northwest of Thomaston where it moved through a residential subdivision at Del Ray Road and Tyler Lane. A small residential leasing office was destroyed at this location with the exterior walls blown away. [11/23/14: Tornado #5, County #1-2, EF2, Upson-Lamar, 2014:022].

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 Birdsong Xrds (32.8945, -84.3502).

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 Chattahoochee County EF1 Lamar County EF0 Talbot County EF0 Lamar County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 550477. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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