EF2 tornado in Fulton County, Georgia

A national Weather Service survey team found that an EF2 tornado with maximum wind speeds of 120 mph and a maximum path width of 315 yards touched down in the South Fulton community between Fairburn and Campbellton. Most of the damage was to two-story homes in the Chestnut Ridge subdivision. More than 50 homes sustained visible damage with at least half sustaining significant damage. The worst damage occurred along Jumpers Trace between Jodhpur Way Suffolk Lane. In this small area, numerous homes had large sections of their roofs removed along with large pieces of the exterior, upstairs, walls. Large trees along the northern and eastern edges of the neighborhood were snapped or uprooted. The tornado continued east for a short distance, ending after crossing Highway 92 just north of Jones Road, but not before it removed part of a roof on a house off of the highway and shingles from the roofs of several houses along Winstar Lane. No injuries were reported. [03/19/18: Tornado #3, County #1/1, EF-2, Fulton, 2018:007].

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.