Hail, Floyd
- When
- April 8, 12:20 PM CST
- Where
- Floyd County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 34.280, -85.180
Tornadoes and Hail in Georgia, April 8, 1957
4 tornado, 2 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 1
- Injuries
- 9
- Property damage
- $550,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 6
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
Event by event
4 tornado, 2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Gordon
- When
- April 8, 1:00 PM CST
- Where
- Gordon County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 10.3 mi
- Path width
- 200 yd
- Injuries
- 5 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 34.430, -85.000
Hail, Floyd
- When
- April 8, 2:28 PM CST
- Where
- Floyd County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 34.080, -85.180
Tornado, Tift
- When
- April 8, 3:00 PM CST
- Where
- Tift County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 41.3 mi
- Path width
- 90 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 31.530, -83.530
Tornado, Telfair
- When
- April 8, 3:30 PM CST
- Where
- Telfair County
- Rating
- F3
- Path length
- 14.7 mi
- Path width
- 400 yd
- Deaths
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Injuries
- 3 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 31.850, -83.080
Tornado, Randolph
- When
- April 8, 5:30 PM CST
- Where
- Randolph County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 5.2 mi
- Path width
- 200 yd
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 31.870, -84.700
The people who died
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado, Telfair | 1957-04-08 | Direct |
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes and Damaging Wind in North Carolina, April 8, 1957
- Tornadoes in Alabama, April 8, 1957
- Tornadoes and Hail in South Carolina, April 8, 1957
- Tornadoes in Mississippi, April 8, 1957
- Tornado in Nebraska, April 8, 1957
- Tornado and Hail in Virginia, April 8, 1957
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, April 8, 1957
More
Every storm in Georgia in 1957Every state in 1957This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Georgia, 1957
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 9998081, 9998082, 9998083, 9998084, 9998085, 9998086.