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EF0 tornado in Ware County, Georgia

Tornado February 6, 2020 · Ware County, Georgia

EF0
Rating
0.2 mi
Path length
50 yd
Path width
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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 brief EF0 tornado damaged power lines and structures near the CSX Transportation Crossroads on the SSW side of Waycross.

The wider storm

A potent pref-frontal squall line crossed the local forecast area during the late afternoon across SE Georgia and continuing eastward exiting the NE Florida Atlantic coast through midnight. There was very strong speed shear over the local area with strong 0-6km shear around 55 knots, 0-1km helicity over 300 m2/s2, and sufficient CAPE for severe weather. The limiting factor was fairly weak mid-level lapse rates. Widespread wind damage occurred with this line with gusts of 40-50 mph and severe strength bowing segments producing wind damage and gusts of 60-76 mph. A isolated tornado briefly touched down in Waycross.

Began near Waycross (31.2080, -82.3642).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 870737. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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