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EF0 tornado in Worth County, Georgia

Tornado December 15, 2007 · Worth County, Georgia

EF0

Rating

3.9 mi

Path length

75 yd

Path width

$750K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 75 yards (0.04 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 weak tornado touched down just north of U.S. Highway 82, then raced northeast through the Isabella community. Along its path, the tornado damaged 29 homes and overturned several irrigation pivots. One peanut warehouse was damaged.

The wider storm

An warm and unstable air mass collided along a strong cold front to produce reports of damaging thunderstorm winds and a pair of tornadoes across portions of southwest Georgia. Unfortunately, a fatality occurred when one of the tornadoes tossed a semi into an enbankment off Interstate 75 just northeast of Ashburn.

Began near Sylvester (31.5522, -83.9128).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Turner County 1 dead EF0 Early County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 68912. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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