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EF0 tornado in Jones County, Georgia

Tornado August 17, 2021 · Jones County, Georgia

EF0
Rating
1.9 mi
Whole path
150 yd
Path width
$50K
Damage as recorded

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

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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 with information provided by the Jones County Emergency Manager found that the EF0 tornado with maximum wind speeds 75 mph and a maximum path width of 150 yards that began in southwestern Baldwin County crossed into Jones County just south of County Line Road NW. The tornado snapped trees as it crossed County Line Road NW and moved across a heavily wooded area northwest of County Line Road NW. [8/17/21: Tornado #5, County #2/2, EF-0, Baldwin/Jones, 2021:019].

The wider storm

The remains of Tropical Storm Fred moved across central and north Georgia as a tropical depression during the overnight hours through the morning producing isolated reports of damaging winds in convective bands and several tornadoes. No reports of wind damage were received outside of the stronger convective bands. Rainfall amounts exceeded 4 inches in portions of northeast Georgia, with amounts of 6 to 8 inches observed in the northeast Georgia mountains.

Began near Greenberry Crossroads (32.9540, -83.3660).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Greene CountyEF1 Madison CountyEF1 Sumter CountyEF1 Banks CountyEF0 Meriwether CountyEF0 Twiggs County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 970139. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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