EF0 tornado in De Kalb County, Georgia

A National Weather Service survey team found that an EF0 tornado with maximum wind speeds of 80 mph and a maximum path width of 250 yards travelled 1.7 miles across a portion of south central DeKalb County. The tornado touched down just north of I-20 near Wesley Chapel Road and Cross Lane, snapping several small trees and pulling a few shingles off of roofs. The tornado moved north northwest causing more extensive damage between Lindsey Drive and Oak Valley Road. In this residential area, including Sherwood Avenue and Hanes Drive, multiple large trees were snapped or uprooted with several falling on homes and taking down utility/power lines. The tornado weakened as it continued north northwest with several additional small trees snapped along its path over Belvedere Square and just across Covington Highway along South Indian Creek Drive. No injuries were reported. [10/10/20: Tornado #6, County #1/1, EF-0, DeKalb, 2020:033].

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.