EF0 tornado in Fannin County, Georgia

A National Weather Service survey team found that an EF-1 tornado with peak winds of 100 mph and a maximum path width of 450 yards touched down along Deep Hole

Campground Road south of the Morganton Highway, Georgia Highway 60, and traveled east-northeast along Morganton Highway, intensifying and downing hundreds of trees along the highway. A 40 foot steel radio tower at a Fannin County Fire Station was blown down and at least four homes suffered damage from fallen trees. The tornado weakened and turned northeast along Cooper Creek Road downing sporadic trees before finally dissipating near the Union County line near the Davis Family Cemetery off of Mulky Gap Road. [01/11/20: Tornado #2, County #1/1, EF-1, Fannin, 2020:002].

A strong cold front associated with a deep upper-level trough moved through the region. A line of strong to severe thunderstorms ahead of the cold front swept into northwest Georgia during the afternoon and progressed southeastward across north and central Georgia through the late afternoon into the evening before weakening and pushing into south Georgia and the Carolinas during the early morning hours. Numerous reports of damaging thunderstorm winds and a few isolated tornadoes were received.