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EF0 tornado in Coffee County, Georgia

Tornado April 13, 2020 · Coffee County, Georgia

EF0
Rating
1.2 mi
Path length
125 yd
Path width
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 125 yards (0.07 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

An EF0 tornado with max winds near 80 mph touched down about 5 miles SE of Ambrose and traveled about 1.5 miles before lifting near Highway 32. Mobile homes were severely damaged and an eighteen wheeler was overturned near Bushnell.

The wider storm

A pre-frontal squall line with embedded supercells will moved across interior southeast Georgia during the early morning hours and reached the Suwannee Valley just before daybreak. Very strong shear and instability phased across SE GA during the morning hours where there were supercells, one that produced two tornado touchdowns. The pre-frontal line slowed down and gradually weakened as it moved into NE Florida into the afternoon, but severe storms continued to be possible due to weakening dynamics and remaining surface based instability.

Began near Bushnell (31.5500, -82.9600).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Wayne County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 877341. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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