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EF1 tornado in Columbia County, Georgia

Tornado March 15, 2008 · Columbia County, Georgia

EF1

Rating

5.3 mi

Path length

440 yd

Path width

Injuries

$140K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 440 yards (0.25 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

Several mobile homes had moderate damage and one was destroyed. Numerous trees and powerlines were down along path. Two people had minor injuries.

The wider storm

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

Began near Winfield (33.6050, -82.4100).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Burke County EF1 Burke County EF0 Lincoln County EF0 McDuffie County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 75954. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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