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EF1 tornado in Wayne County, Georgia

Tornado March 7, 2008 · Wayne County, Georgia

EF1

Rating

0.6 mi

Path length

200 yd

Path width

$1K

Damage as recorded

$10K

Crop damage

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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 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

Wayne County Emergency Management reported a 200 yard wide and one half mile long tornado track crossing Post Road and Boones Branch Road south of Mount Pleasant. Hundreds of trees were snapped by the event with the Road Department sent to clear the roadways. Several garages were damaged with the tornado path transiting between several homes.

The wider storm

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

Began near Mt Pleasant (31.4069, -81.6919).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Charlton County EF0 Camden County EF0 Brantley County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 74686. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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