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EF0 tornado in Spalding County, Georgia

Tornado April 14, 2019 · Spalding County, Georgia

EF0

Rating

4.3 mi

Whole path

150 yd

Path width

$220K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Lamar County → Spalding County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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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 determined that an EF0 tornado with maximum wind speeds 75 mph and a maximum path width of 150 yards moved northeast out of Lamar County into southeast Spalding County near Brown Road. The tornado snapped or uprooted a few trees as it crossed Swint Road and Ellis Dairy Road before dissipating west of Barnesville Road and south of Rehoboth Baptism Branch. No injuries were reported. [04/14/19: Tornado #4, County #2/2, EF-0, Spalding, 2019:024].

The wider storm

A surface low and associated cold front swept through the region ahead of a deep upper-level trough. Moderate instability and strong shear, combined with the vigorous mid and upper-level dynamics to produce scattered reports of damaging thunderstorm winds and isolated tornadoes.

Began near Orchard Hill (33.1788, -84.1541).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF0 Muscogee County EF0 Muscogee County EF0 Lamar County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 813058. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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