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EF0 tornado in Pike County, Georgia

Tornado January 13, 2020 · Pike County, Georgia

EF0

Rating

1.5 mi

Path length

100 yd

Path width

$25K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 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 peak winds of 80 mph and a maximum path width of 100 yards touched down in the 500 block of Wood Creek Road southwest of Williamson in northern Pike County. Several large trees were snapped or uprooted intermittently along a path following Reidsboro Road northeastward, including in the Eagles Landing subdivision, where one home sustained

minor roof damage. The tornado lifted just southwest of Pike County Fire Station #6 west of Williamson-Zebulon Road. [01/13/20: Tornado #1, County #1/1, EF-0, Pike, 2020:004].

The wider storm

Following an incredibly wet beginning to January, another round of heavy rainfall occurred on January 13th as ample moisture continued to produce heavy rainfall over a stalled system. The rainfall amounts, combined with extremely wet soils resulted in isolated flash flooding over portions of north and central Georgia. Widespread rainfall amounts were generally 1 to 3 inches, with the heaviest amounts oriented along a line from LaGrange, to Covington, to Lexington. A few strong to severe thunderstorms also produced isolated reports of damaging winds and a couple of isolated, brief tornadoes.

Began near Reidsboro (33.1469, -84.3921).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF0 Spalding County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 875806. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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