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EF0 tornado in Bibb County, Georgia

Tornado November 7, 2018 · Bibb County, Georgia

EF0

Rating

7.6 mi

Path length

200 yd

Path width

$15K

Damage as recorded

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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 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 National Weather Service survey determined that an EF0 tornado with maximum wind speeds of 80 mph and a maximum path width of 200 yards occurred across southern Bibb County, south of Macon. The tornado touched down around intersection of Sardis Church Road and Hartley Bridge Road where several large trees were snapped, one striking a house. The tornado moved east-northeast snapping and uprooting trees across Barfield Road and I-75. East of I-75, a church along Skipperton Road had a portion of its metal roof blown off and tossed more than 100 yards downwind. At this same location, a covered walkway anchored in the ground with concrete footings was pulled from the ground. The tornado continued east-northeast across the Skipperton community with trees blown down along Hartley Bridge Road and Houston Road, eventually lifting east of Highway 129, Hawkinsville Road. [11/07/18: Tornado #1, County #1/1, EF-0, Bibb, 2018:015].

The wider storm

Thunderstorms along a slowly moving cold front produced isolated reports of damaging thunderstorm winds across central Georgia during the late afternoon and early evening.

Began near Skipperton (32.7181, -83.7589).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 793700. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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