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EF0 tornado in Treutlen County, Georgia

Tornado April 5, 2017 · Treutlen County, Georgia

EF0
Rating
20.2 mi
Whole path
100 yd
Path width
$170K
Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Laurens County → Treutlen 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 that a tornado in eastern Laurens County crossed Mercer Creek into Treutlen County just east of Thairdell Road with maximum wind speeds of 80 MPH and a maximum path width of 100 yards. The tornado moved northeast damaging a few trees along Knox Mill Road and Red Bluff Church Road before ending near Highway 29 and Briarcliff road. No injuries were reported. [04/05/7: Tornado #7, County #2/2, EF-0, Laurens, Treutlen, 2017:066].

The wider storm

Another strong short wave, the second in three days, rotated through a large and deep upper-level trough over the eastern U.S. A deep surface low and strong cold front moved through the state combining with moderate instability and strong low-level shear to produce another round of widespread severe weather across north and central Georgia, including several tornadoes.

Began near Orland (32.4051, -82.7003).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Stewart CountyEF1 Coweta CountyEF1 Newton CountyEF1 Dooly CountyEF1 Dodge CountyEF0 Sumter County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 698349. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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