Thunderstorm Wind, Bacon
- When
- June 14, 4:00 PM CST
- Where
- Bacon County
- Coordinates
- 31.500, -82.500
Tornado and Damaging Wind in Georgia, June 14, 1963
1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
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- 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
- 0
- Injuries
- 2
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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
1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Ben Hill
- When
- June 14, 5:00 PM CST
- Where
- Ben Hill County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Injuries
- 2 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 31.720, -83.250
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
- 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
- Tornado in Wyoming, June 14, 1963
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, June 14, 1963
- Hail in Utah, June 14, 1963
- Hail in Idaho, June 14, 1963
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Montana, June 14, 1963
- Hail in Massachusetts, June 14, 1963
- Hail in Connecticut, June 14, 1963
- Hail in Maryland, June 14, 1963
- Damaging Wind in Arkansas, June 14, 1963
- Hail in Nebraska, June 14, 1963
- Hail in Virginia, June 14, 1963
More
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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: 9994405, 9994406.