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EF0 tornado in Fayette County, Georgia

Tornado March 25, 2021 · Fayette County, Georgia

EF0

Rating

38.6 mi

Whole path

800 yd

Path width

Death

$20.6M

Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 800 yards (0.45 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 determined that an EF0 tornado with maximum wind speeds 75 MPH and a maximum path width of 800 yards occurred in Fayette County. The Heard-Coweta County tornado moved east-northeast into Fayette County and northern Peachtree City crossing Line Creek east of Minix Road. It snapped a few trees near MacDuff Parkway where new homes were being constructed. Portable restrooms and light construction materials were also blown around. A few trees were downed on the CSX railroad tracks near Senoia Road and along Highway 74 near Kedron Drive. Large trees blocked the entrance to the Kedron Hills neighborhood at Loring Lane and Peachtree Parkway. The tornado finally ended near Astoria Lane at the northeast end of Kedron Hills in Peachtree City. [3/25/21: Tornado #2, County #3/3, EF-0, Heard, Coweta, Fayette, 2021:007].

The wider storm

A very moist and moderately unstable airmass over the region combined with strong shear and persistent southwesterly mid and upper flow produced numerous showers and thunderstorms across north and parts of central Georgia through the day on the 25th into the morning of the 26th. Numerous reports of flooding were received with several reports of severe thunderstorms and a few isolated tornadoes. Rainfall amounts of 2.5 to 6 inches were common over north Georgia, with 6 to 8 inches observed over the higher elevations of northeast Georgia.

Began near Aberdeen (33.4250, -84.6200).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Bartow County EF1 Bartow County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 941341. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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