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EF1 tornado in Lee County, Georgia

Tornado May 23, 2017 · Lee County, Georgia

EF1

Rating

10.6 mi

Whole path

100 yd

Path width

$50K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Lee County → Sumter 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 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

An EF1 tornado with max winds estimated near 90 mph touched down in Lee county and moved in Sumter county. The EF1 damage was due to trees, and no structures were impacted in Lee county.

The wider storm

A couple of days of severe weather impacted southern Georgia on May 23rd and 24th. Two EF0 tornadoes occurred, and some straight line wind damage also occurred with impacts to trees and power lines.

Began near Scrutchins (31.8540, -84.2359).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF0 Randolph County EF0 Cook County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 696037. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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