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EF0 tornado in Talbot County, Georgia

Tornado February 7, 2018 · Talbot County, Georgia

EF0

Rating

3.7 mi

Path length

200 yd

Path width

$35K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 200 yards (0.11 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 85 MPH and a maximum path width of 200 yards touched down west of Junction City near the intersection of Carlyle Road and South Taylor Road where a few

small softwood trees were snapped or uprooted. The tornado moved east northeast snapping or uprooting about 15 to 20 small softwood trees just west of the intersection of Highway 96 and Highway 90. As the tornado entered Junction City, some siding was

removed from a small pole barn on Rock Church Road, and additional small trees were snapped. The tornado then turned southeast and moved across Junction City snapping

15 to 20 more trees along Broadwood Circle before ending. [02/07/18: Tornado #3, County #1/1, EF-0, Talbot, 2018:003].

The wider storm

A line of thunderstorms ahead of a strong cold front swept through north and central Georgia during the morning into the early afternoon. Despite only marginal instability, strong low and mid-level shear resulted in isolated reports of thunderstorm wind damage and a few brief tornadoes.

Began near Brownsand (32.6038, -84.5151).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Heard County EF0 Haralson County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 737564. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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