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F0 tornado in Sumter County, Georgia

Tornado September 29, 1998 · Sumter County, Georgia

Rating

0.2 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

$20K

Crop damage

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NOAA recorded where this tornado touched down but not where it lifted, so it appears as a point. 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 newspaper report indicated another brief touchdown by an apparent tornado took out a pecan grove on Georgia highway 49 near Andersonville. This would probably have been from the same storm that had hit near DeSoto about 35 minutes earlier.

Began near Andersonville (32.2000, -84.1300).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F1 Sumter County F1 Sumter County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5664633. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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