F0 tornado — Emanuel County, Georgia

F0 tornado in Emanuel County, Georgia

Tornado April 15, 1999 · Emanuel County, Georgia

Rating

4.0 mi

Path length

100 yd

Path width

$5K

Damage as recorded

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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 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

The Emanuel county 911 center reported a few trees down and hail of unknown size in Stillmore. They received numerous reports from the public and county sheriff deputies of a funnel cloud in the Oak Park area There were public reports of a tornado between Oak Park and Stillmore, with possible damage to a trailer. Radar signatures indicated rotation strong enough to produce a brief tornado touchdown. The F0 intensity as well as the path length and width were estimated. The same storm cell may have later produced a tornado in Candler county.

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5686497. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

F0 tornado in Emanuel County, Georgia

What the National Weather Service wrote

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