EF0 tornado — Gilmer County, Georgia

EF0 tornado in Gilmer County, Georgia

Tornado May 24, 2017 · Gilmer County, Georgia

EF0

Rating

0.1 mi

Path length

30 yd

Path width

$8K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 30 yards (0.02 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 thunderstorm that produced two brief tornadoes in Gordon County produced another brief tornado in Gilmer County northwest of Ellijay. The EF0 tornado, with maximum wind speeds of 70 MPH and a maximum path width of 30 yards, touched down southwest of Rodgers Creek Road and moved northeast for less than a tenth of a mile, crossing the road and snapping or uprooting several large trees on either side of the road. No injuries were reported. [05/24/17: Tornado # 4, County #1/1, EF-0, Gilmer, 2017:078].

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.

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 704148. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

EF0 tornado in Gilmer County, Georgia

What the National Weather Service wrote

The wider storm

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