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EF0 tornado in Habersham County, Georgia

Tornado April 13, 2020 · Habersham County, Georgia

EF0
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 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

NWS storm survey found that a tornado that began in Hall County, then moved across extreme southwest Habersham County, then extreme northern Banks County, moved back into Habersham County in the Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest. Multiple trees were uprooted as the tornado moved east across the extreme southeast part of the county before moving into Stephens County near Reservoir Number 44.

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 Mt Airy (34.4850, -83.4810).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 886043. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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