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EF0 tornado in Lincoln County, Georgia

Tornado March 15, 2008 · Lincoln County, Georgia

EF0

Rating

1.1 mi

Path length

110 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 110 yards (0.06 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

NWS survey found an F0 touched down and took down many trees along its path. Witnesses saw the tornado go across the river into McCormick county SC.

The wider storm

Three supercells tracked across portions of the GA CSRA and produce multiple long-lived tornadoes that produced significant damage.

Began near Gill (33.9600, -82.5930).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Burke County EF1 Columbia County EF1 Burke County EF0 McDuffie County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 75951. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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