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EF0 tornado in Webster County, Georgia

Tornado March 3, 2019 · Webster County, Georgia

EF0
Rating
30.9 mi
Whole path
860 yd
Path width
$415K
Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Barbour County, Alabama → Quitman County → Stewart County → Webster County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 860 yards (0.49 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 found that the EF2 tornado that moved across Stewart County weakened to EF0 by the time it moved into Webster County along the Ichawaynochaway Creek west of Highway 41. The tornado moved only a short distance into the county before dissipating near the intersection of Highway 41 and Goodwin Cutoff Road. Despite weakening, the tornado still managed to snap large tree branches and overturn a large agricultural irrigation system around this intersection. No injuries were reported. [03/03/19: Tornado #14, County #2/2, EF0, WSebster, 2019:019].

The wider storm

A powerful storm system moved across the mid-south and southeast United States producing widespread severe weather and numerous tornadoes. In middle Georgia, significant damage from fourteen separate tornadoes was observed. Thousands of trees were snapped or uprooted and numerous homes and businesses were damaged or destroyed. Across central Georgia, incredibly, no deaths were reported, with only around a dozen minor injuries.

Began near Weston (31.9652, -84.6452).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 810646. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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