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EF1 tornado in Ware County, Georgia

Tornado September 16, 2020 · Ware County, Georgia

EF1

Rating

0.2 mi

Path length

200 yd

Path width

$40K

Damage as recorded

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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

Numerous gravestones were lofted and displaced along the damage path. A church at 2353 Carswell Avenue had roof damage where at leas 20% of the roof was lifted off of the structure. The cost of damage was unknown but estimated for Storm Data.

The wider storm

A quasi-stationary front extended from Hurricane Sally near the central Florida Gulf Coast to across NE FL and offshore of the local coast. This boundary combined with high tropical moisture and low level instability across the area combined produced a few strong storms in the afternoon, one with a brief tornado touchdown near Waycross.

Began near Hebardville (31.2128, -82.4029).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 921577. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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