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EF0 tornado in Atkinson County, Georgia

Tornado December 2, 2018 · Atkinson County, Georgia

EF0

Rating

3.2 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 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

Tree tops were broken off at the tops per EM storm survey. Damage was confined to areas south of Highway 82, between County Road 38 and Lazy Nine Road. The time of damage was based on radar data.

The wider storm

A lifting warm front, very saturated airmass and strong upper level dynamics ahead of a cold front created a couple waves of localized heavy rainfall across the local area from Dec. 1-2nd. A pre-frontal squall line with embedded supercell storms crossed the area during the afternoon of Dec. 2nd which triggered a few weak tornadoes.

Began near Saye (31.2925, -83.0196).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF3 Camden County EF1 Glynn County EF0 Atkinson County EF0 Ware County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 791716. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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