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EF1 tornado in Coffee County, Georgia

Tornado May 4, 2017 · Coffee County, Georgia

EF1

Rating

1.9 mi

Path length

60 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 60 yards (0.03 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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

Several trees with snapped trunks were observed along the tornado path. Some damage occurred to one home and one outbuilding.

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 West Green (31.5894, -82.6965).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Jeff Davis County EF0 Atkinson County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 692869. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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