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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

$30K

Damage as recorded

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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 the same thunderstorm that produced a brief tornado east of Resaca, produced another brief tornado northeast of

Resaca along Nicklesville Road. The EF0 tornado with maximum wind speeds of 75 MPH and a maximum path width of 90 yards, damaged the roof of a home and a small barn and snapped or uprooted several large trees. No injuries were reported. [05/24/17: Tornado #3, County #1/1, EF-0, Gordon, 2017:077].

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 Nicklesville (34.5984, -84.8888).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Whitfield County EF1 Toombs County EF0 Gordon County EF0 Gilmer County EF0 Fannin County EF0 Laurens County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 704146. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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