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EF0 tornado in Clayton County, Georgia

Tornado October 10, 2020 · Clayton County, Georgia

EF0
Rating
0.6 mi
Path length
150 yd
Path width
$40K
Damage as recorded
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 150 yards (0.09 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 maximum wind speeds of 75 mph and a maximum path width 150 yards travelled 0.6 miles across a portion of east Clayton County near Morrow. The tornado touched down near Maddox Road south of Mt. Zion Boulevard between Morrow and Allendale Heights in northeast Clayton County. The tornado moved north northwest, snapping a few trees and pulling some roof materials and siding off a home, before lifting just before Mt. Zion Boulevard. No injuries were reported. [10/10/20: Tornado #5, County #1/1, EF-0, Clayton, 2020:032].

The wider storm

During the afternoon and evening of October 10th, as the remnants of Hurricane Delta passed northwest of Georgia, moisture from the Gulf of Mexico spread across the area. Several weak tornadoes occurred in north and central Georgia in addition to pockets of heavy rainfall and flooding across the Atlanta metropolitan area and portions of northeast Georgia.

Began near Morrow (33.5640, -84.3056).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Newton CountyEF0 Coweta CountyEF0 Coweta CountyEF0 Pike CountyEF0 De Kalb CountyEF0 Gwinnett County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 919469. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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