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EF1 tornado in Haralson County, Georgia

Tornado March 19, 2018 · Haralson County, Georgia

EF1

Rating

50.7 mi

Whole path

400 yd

Path width

Injuries

$300K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through St. Clair County, Alabama → Etowah County, Alabama → Calhoun County, Alabama → Calhoun County, Alabama → Cleburne County, Alabama → Haralson County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 400 yards (0.23 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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 tornado that struck Jacksonville, AL moved into Georgia as an EF1 with a maximum wind speed of 95 mph and a maximum path width of 400 yards. The tornado entered Georgia northwest of Tallapoosa along Broad Street, snapping and uprooting trees along the road as it moved east for about a mile before ending on Edgar Little Circle between Broad Street and Womack Road. A large Oak tree fell on a home about 1/4 of a mile east of the state line resulting in extensive damage. No injuries were reported. [03/19/18: Tornado #1, County #1/1, EF-1, Haralson, 2018:005].

The wider storm

Widespread severe thunderstorms broke out across central and north Georgia during the evening hours of March 19th, through the early morning hours of the 20th as a warm front lifted north across the region ahead of a strong storm system developing across the lower Mississippi Valley.

Began near Hooper (33.7740, -85.3617).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Fulton County EF1 Haralson County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 740807. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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