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EF1 tornado in Habersham County, Georgia

Tornado April 13, 2020 · Habersham County, Georgia

EF1

Rating

22.4 mi

Whole path

200 yd

Path width

$140K

Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 200 yards (0.11 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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

NWS storm survey found that a tornado moved into Habersham County from Hall County along Herring Mill Rd and moved east/northeast across extreme southern Habersham County, passing just north of Alto before moving into the Baldwin area. Damage was largely confined to numerous snapped and uprooted trees, although a metal roof was damaged on the southwest side of Baldwin. The tornado moved into Banks County just south of Gainesville Highway.

The wider storm

A strong storm system impacted the Southeast, resulting in a line of strong to severe thunderstorms that moved across northeast Georgia during the early morning hours of the 13th. This resulted in severe weather, including a couple of tornadoes.

Began near Raoul (34.4590, -83.6350).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 886042. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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