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EF0 tornado in Atkinson County, Georgia

Tornado May 4, 2017 · Atkinson County, Georgia

EF0

Rating

0.0 mi

Path length

35 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 35 yards (0.02 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 brief tornado caused severe roof damage to one garage structure.

The wider storm

An upper level low pressure center closed off over the Tennessee River Valley while a developing surface low pressure formed across Arkansas and tracked NE as it deepened toward the Ohio River Valley. A trailing cold front pressed eastward across the forecast area. This forcing combined with high moisture and instability initiated a squall line of severe storms that also produced 2 confirmed tornadoes in SE Georgia. Large hail and wind damage also occurred.

Began near Oberry (31.3841, -82.9376).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Coffee County EF1 Jeff Davis County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 692868. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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