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EF1 tornado in Meriwether County, Georgia

Tornado May 26, 2015 · Meriwether County, Georgia

EF1
Rating
9.8 mi
Path length
350 yd
Path width
$100K
Damage as recorded
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 350 yards (0.20 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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 tornado briefly touched down within a cluster of severe thunderstorms just west of Warm Springs /along Highway 194/ in southern Meriwether county. Much of the damage was to trees, either snapped or uprooted as the tornado tracked northeast before lifting just northwest of Woodbury. The worst of the damage occurred between Roosevelt Highway and Juke Line Road where numerous large trees were snapped or uprooted. Maximum winds of 90 MPH was determined based on this area and damage. [05/26/15: Tornado #1, County #1-1, EF1, Meriwether, 2015:008].

The wider storm

Marginal Risk (SPC) day produced rather widespread wind damage across west-central Georgia during the late afternoon hours of the 26th. An EF-1 tornado was confirmed north of Warm Springs in Meriwether county. An upper level wave moving east from AL/Gulf coast region spawned widespread convection that became an evident QLCS that tracked west to east across GA during the afternoon hours. The most intense/severe storms were generally south of I-20 and west of I-75.

Began near Warm Spgs (32.8900, -84.7100).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 582934. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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