F1 tornado in Bryan County, Georgia

Tornado April 9, 1998 · Bryan County, Georgia

Rating

5.0 mi

Path length

100 yd

Path width

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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 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

Several trees uprooted or snapped off as F1 ended cycle of destruction from the parent thunderstorm that moved from Long County through Liberty to the western edge of Bryan.

Began near Richmond Hill (31.9300, -81.3800).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

F2 Long County 4 dead

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5638673. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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