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EF0 tornado in Stewart County, Georgia

Tornado April 7, 2016 · Stewart County, Georgia

EF0

Rating

0.2 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

$20K

Damage as recorded

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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

Georgia State Park officials found damage from a short-lived and weak tornado in the Providence Canyon State Park. Estimated maximum wind speeds of 75 MPH along a path around 300 yards long and 50 yards wide snapped or uprooted numerous trees. This occurred in a very remote area of the park with no vehicle access. No injuries were reported. [04/07/16: Tornado #1, County #1-1, EF0, Stewart, 2016:005].

The wider storm

A line of strong to severe thunderstorms swept across North Georgia during the evening of April 6th into the early morning hours of the 7th ahead of a strong cold front. Although instability was somewhat limited, strong low-level and deep layer shear helped to produce numerous reports of large hail and very strong, damaging winds across North Georgia. Despite an overall weakening of the storms as they moved into Central Georgia, a few reports of damaging winds and two brief, weak tornadoes occurred in West Central Georgia.

Began near Sunlight (32.0639, -84.9134).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF0 Webster County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 630117. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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