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EF0 tornado in Wilkinson County, Georgia

Tornado December 11, 2021 · Wilkinson County, Georgia

EF0

Rating

3.8 mi

Path length

200 yd

Path width

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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 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 brief tornado touched down over south-central Wilkinson County

within a small area of pre-frontal showers and storms that

produced a very brief but discrete mini-supercell. Based on radar

(cell was less than 10 miles from KJGX) and confirmed ground

reports of trees down, the tornado tracked from roughly between

Hwy 96 and JW Bridges Road and US Hwy 441 just north of Maiden

Creek. A well-defined TDS was noted at around 2219Z (5:19 PM EST)

and this lined up well with trees that were seen down just west of

this location, along Pleasant Plains Church Road. The eastward-

moving tornado lifted past US 441 as no additional damage was

noted east of this point. [12/11/21: Tornado #1, County #1/1, EF-0, Wilkinson, 2021:22].

The wider storm

An unseasonably warm airmass ahead of a cold front sparked scattered showers and thunderstorms across north and central Georgia during the day, 11 December 2021. A few of these storms became strong to severe with localized wind damage and even a brief, weak tornado that touched down in middle Georgia (Wilkinson County).

Began near Irwinton (32.7300, -83.2100).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 996859. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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