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EF0 tornado in Oglethorpe County, Georgia

Tornado May 3, 2021 · Oglethorpe County, Georgia

EF0
Rating
1.9 mi
Path length
200 yd
Path width
$100K
Damage as recorded
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

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 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 winds of 80 MPH and a maximum path width of 200 yards touched down along Robert Hardeman Road on the Clarke/Oglethorpe county line just south of Winterville. The tornado travelled east, snapping and uprooting several trees from Robert Hardeman Road across W. Beaverdam Road to just past Arnoldsville Road. Along Tim Lane, a roof was blown off a small barn. The tornado ended just south of Hargrove Lake Road where just a few larger tree limbs were seen snapped. [5/3/21: Tornado #5, County #1/1, EF-0, Oglethorpe, 2021:013].

The wider storm

A series of upper-level short waves moved across the region in persistent, southwesterly upper-level flow combined with moderate instability and shear to produce several rounds of strong to severe thunderstorms across north and central Georgia. Some of these storms dumped 2 to 4 inches of rain over the area, resulting in isolated flash flooding.

Began near Dunlap (33.9543, -83.2791).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Douglas CountyEF1 Fulton CountyEF1 Madison CountyEF0 Walton CountyEF0 Lumpkin County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 962681. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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