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EF0 tornado in Washington County, Georgia

Tornado April 3, 2017 · Washington County, Georgia

EF0

Rating

0.4 mi

Path length

150 yd

Path width

$10K

Damage as recorded

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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 that a very short-lived tornado developed approximately five miles northeast of Sandersville. Damage was found

along a path from Mayview Road to Kittrell Creek Road where several smaller trees were uprooted and snapped. No injuries were reported. This thunderstorm spawned another tornado, several miles east, near the Washington and Jefferson county line. [04/03/17: Tornado # 26, County #1/1, EF-0, Washington, 2017:058].

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 Sparks (33.0514, -82.7538).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 698232. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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