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EF0 tornado in Laurens County, Georgia

Tornado April 3, 2017 · Laurens County, Georgia

EF0
Rating
6.6 mi
Whole path
150 yd
Path width
$30K
Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Wilkinson County → Laurens County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 150 yards (0.09 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 an EF0 tornado with maximum wind speeds of 80 MPH and a maximum path width of 150 yards moved east from Wilkinson County into Laurens County west of Wendell Dixon Road. The tornado crossed Wendell Dixon road and snapped or uprooted trees before ending around the intersection of Old Toomsboro Road and Oconee Church Road. No injuries were reported. [04/03/17: Tornado #23, County #2/2, EF-0, Wilkinson, Laurens, 2017:055].

The wider storm

A strong short wave and associated surface low swept through the southern and eastern U.S. and combined with moderate instability and strong shear resulted in widespread severe weather, including numerous tornadoes, across north and central Georgia from late morning through the afternoon.

Began near Chappells Mill (32.6794, -83.0262).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Wilkinson CountyEF1 Carroll CountyEF1 Fulton CountyEF1 Muscogee CountyEF1 Lumpkin CountyEF1 Talbot CountyEF1 Upson CountyEF1 Schley CountyEF1 Monroe CountyEF1 Peach CountyEF1 Twiggs CountyEF1 Twiggs CountyEF1 Washington CountyEF1 Washington CountyEF0 Stewart CountyEF0 Stewart CountyEF0 Talbot CountyEF0 Webster CountyEF0 Spalding CountyEF0 Upson CountyEF0 Henry CountyEF0 Jones CountyEF0 Wilkinson CountyEF0 Hancock CountyEF0 Wilkinson CountyEF0 Washington County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 698175. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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