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EF1 tornado in Charlton County, Georgia

Tornado March 7, 2008 · Charlton County, Georgia

EF1

Rating

6.7 mi

Whole path

100 yd

Path width

Injury

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Baker County, Florida → Charlton County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 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 total of 5 houses were damaged with one house sustaining major structural damage. Possible tornado induced damage was along State Road 185 near Mile Marker 2. Numerous power lines were reported down in southern Charlton County. The mesocyclone which dropped this tornado was tracked through Columbia and Baker Counties in Florida and spanned several tornadoes there. The mesocyclone also moved into western Nassau County Florida with a brief touchdown there.

The wider storm

A squall line with severe weather and several tornadoes moved across north Florida and southeast Georgia.

Began near Clarking (30.4600, -82.2000).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Wayne County EF0 Camden County EF0 Brantley County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 74564. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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