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EF1 Tornado — Turner, Georgia

2007-12-15 · near Ashburn, Turner, Georgia

Direct deaths

$1.2M

Property damage

3.5 mi

Path length

125 yds

Path width

Event narrative

A tornado touched down just southwest of Ashburn and tracked northeast through the city. Numerous trees were toppled, with several on top of houses and vehicles. Four mobile homes were destroyed and 39 frame homes were damaged. The tornado's winds twisted steel beams and tore the roofs off of two peanut warehouses. Numerous businesses were damaged. The tornado snapped the tops of pine trees just northeast of Ashburn. A semi traveling north on Interstate 75 near mile marker 83 was blown into an embankment. The driver was killed on impact.

Wider weather episode

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.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 68914. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.