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EF0 tornado in Newton County, Georgia

Tornado November 23, 2014 · Newton County, Georgia

EF0
Rating
21.6 mi
Whole path
50 yd
Path width
$32K
Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 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 the EF-1 tornado that touched down in Lamar County and crossed Butts County, crossed the South River on the upper reaches of Lake Jackson into Newton County. The tornado only travelled a little over a half mile northeast into Newton County before lifting near the intersection of State Highway 36 and Parker Road. Maximum wind speeds were around 90 MPH with mainly damage to trees. Several hardwood and softwood trees were snapped or uprooted. [11/23/14: Tornado #8, County #3-3, EF1, Lamar-Butts-Newton, 2014:025].

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 Stewart (33.3932, -83.8894).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Monroe CountyEF1 Houston CountyEF1 Stewart CountyEF1 Barbour CountyEF1 Chattahoochee CountyEF0 Talbot CountyEF0 Upson CountyEF0 Lamar County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 550482. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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