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EF0 tornado in Taylor County, Georgia

Tornado April 27, 2017 · Taylor County, Georgia

EF0

Rating

21.7 mi

Whole path

100 yd

Path width

$317K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Talbot County → Taylor County → Talbot 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 survey team found a long-track tornado path across southeast Talbot County that briefly crossed into Taylor County before crossing back into Talbot County and ending. The entire path length was nearly 22 miles and the maximum path width was 700 yards. As the tornado crossed into Taylor County it had weakened to EF-0 with maximum wind speed around 75 MPH and a maximum width around 100 yards. The tornado caused mainly minor damage to softwood trees and travelled around a mile before crossing back into Talbot County. No injuries were reported. [04/27/17: Tornado #1/1, County #2/3, EF-0, Talbot, Taylor, Talbot, 2017:067].

The wider storm

Afternoon heating combined with ample, deep moisture over the region resulted in a moderately unstable atmosphere across the area by late afternoon. This unstable atmosphere combined with moderate shear and a strong cold front sweeping through north and central Georgia to produce a few severe thunderstorms and an isolated tornado across portions of central Georgia.

Began near Howard (32.6717, -84.3665).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 695985. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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