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EF0 tornado in Fulton County, Georgia

Tornado November 30, 2016 · Fulton County, Georgia

EF0

Rating

2.9 mi

Whole path

100 yd

Path width

$16K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Fulton County → Forsyth County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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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 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

A National Weather Service storm survey team found that an EF0 tornado with maximum winds of 80 MPH moved along a path with a maximum width of 100 yards for 1.10 miles across portions of northern Fulton County. The tornado began along Windward Parkway where two pine trees were uprooted. The tornado moved northeast to McGinnis Ferry Road where it crossed into Forsyth County. [11/30/16: Tornado #5, County #1/2, EF0, Fulton, 2016:011].

The wider storm

A strong cold front associated with a deep and sharp upper-level trough swept through the state accompanied by a line of thunderstorms. Despite only marginal instability; ample deep-layer shear and a strong low-level jet resulted in several reports of damaging winds and tornadoes with these thunderstorms. The early morning hours tornado that occurred in Catoosa County was actually associated with a supercell. The other tornadoes were associated with a Quasi-Linear Convective System (QLCS) during the late morning/afternoon hours of the 30th.

Began near Ocee (34.0905, -84.2336).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Cobb County EF1 Fulton County EF1 Jackson County EF0 Catoosa County EF0 Carroll County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 662421. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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