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EF0 tornado in Gordon County, Georgia

Tornado May 24, 2017 · Gordon County, Georgia

EF0
Rating
0.3 mi
Path length
90 yd
Path width
$10K
Damage as recorded
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 90 yards (0.05 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 an EF0 tornado with maximum wind speeds of 75 MPH and a maximum path width of 70 yards touched down east of Resaca between Swan Drive Northeast and Fite Bend Road Northeast where several large trees were snapped or uprooted. The tornado moved northeast across a wheat field and into a small wooded area where it snapped a few large tree branches before lifting as it approached the Conasauga River. No injuries were reported. [05/24/17: Tornado #2, County #1/1, EF-0, Gordon, 2017:076].

The wider storm

Another strong short wave and surface cold front, associated with the large and deep upper-level trough over the central U.S., swept through the region bringing more scattered severe thunderstorms and isolated tornadoes to north and central Georgia.

Began near Resaca (34.5847, -84.9251).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Whitfield CountyEF1 Toombs CountyEF0 Gordon CountyEF0 Gilmer CountyEF0 Fannin CountyEF0 Laurens County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 704145. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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