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EF0 tornado in Atkinson County, Georgia

Tornado December 2, 2018 · Atkinson County, Georgia

EF0

Rating

0.2 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

$2K

Damage as recorded

EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

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

A home security camera captured video of a tornado moving across personal property. Minor damage was done to the home. Cost of damage was estimated.

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 Pearson (31.3100, -82.8600).

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 791717. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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