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EF0 tornado in Fayette County, Georgia

Tornado February 12, 2019 · Fayette County, Georgia

EF0

Rating

0.6 mi

Path length

150 yd

Path width

$10K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 150 yards (0.09 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 team found that an EF0 tornado with maximum winds of 70 mph and a maximum path width of 150 yards briefly touched down in northern Fayette County. Several trees were snapped or uprooted between Bentley Way and Thornton Way/Drive, including along Bentley Lane and New Oakridge Trail. [02/12/19: Tornado #1, County #1/1, EF-0, Fayette, 2019:001].

The wider storm

A sharp upper-level trough and associated strong cold front swept through the region resulting in numerous reports of damaging thunderstorm wind gusts and a few isolated tornadoes across parts of north and central Georgia.

Began near Lees Mill (33.5030, -84.4791).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF0 Clayton County EF0 Henry County EF0 Macon County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 803584. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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