EF0 tornado in Lanier County, Georgia

Tornado April 23, 2020 · Lanier County, Georgia

EF0

Rating

2.2 mi

Whole path

25 yd

Path width

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 25 yards (0.01 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 weak tornado touched down just east of Powell Road in extreme eastern Lanier County. It caused minor tree damage there and also over on East Highway 122 just east of the county line. The tornado then continued into Clinch County. This tornado was rated EF0 with max winds estimated at 88 mph in Lanier county.

The wider storm

Another in a series of strong upper level troughs pushed through the southeast states, resulting in another enhanced risk of severe storms from the Storm Prediction Center. The tri-state area was hit fairly hard again, with numerous reports of wind damage documented along with several tornadoes.

Began near Courthouse (31.0930, -82.9832).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

2 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF1 Colquitt County EF1 Mitchell County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 890103. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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