Tornado, Meriwether
- When
- May 25, 6:00 AM CST
- Where
- Meriwether County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 27 yd
- Coordinates
- 32.880, -84.770
Tornadoes and Hail in Georgia, May 25, 1980
6 hail, 3 tornado, 3 thunderstorm wind, 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
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 12
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
6 hail, 3 tornado, 3 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Talbot
- When
- May 25, 6:30 AM CST
- Where
- Talbot County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 27 yd
- Coordinates
- 32.680, -84.470
Thunderstorm Wind, Talbot
- When
- May 25, 7:25 AM CST
- Where
- Talbot County
- Coordinates
- 32.680, -84.530
Hail, Worth
- When
- May 25, 11:00 AM CST
- Where
- Worth County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 31.530, -83.850
Hail, Worth
- When
- May 25, 11:00 AM CST
- Where
- Worth County
- Measured
- 3 in hail
- Coordinates
- 31.370, -83.870
Tornado, Brooks
- When
- May 25, 11:30 AM CST
- Where
- Brooks County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 30.930, -83.500
Hail, Colquitt
- When
- May 25, 11:45 AM CST
- Where
- Colquitt County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 31.170, -83.600
Thunderstorm Wind, Colquitt
- When
- May 25, 11:45 AM CST
- Where
- Colquitt County
- Coordinates
- 31.170, -83.600
Hail, Brooks
- When
- May 25, 12:15 PM CST
- Where
- Brooks County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 30.920, -83.470
Thunderstorm Wind, Brooks
- When
- May 25, 12:15 PM CST
- Where
- Brooks County
- Coordinates
- 30.920, -83.470
Hail, Glynn
- When
- May 25, 1:00 PM CST
- Where
- Glynn County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 31.180, -81.500
Hail, Camden
- When
- May 25, 4:05 PM CST
- Where
- Camden County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 30.970, -81.720
What these are
- 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.
- 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.
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Montana, May 25, 1980
- Tornadoes and Hail in Florida, May 25, 1980
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, May 25, 1980
- Hail in Alabama, May 25, 1980
- Damaging Winds in North Dakota, May 25, 1980
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Mississippi, May 25, 1980
- Hail in Arkansas, May 25, 1980
- Hail in Nebraska, May 25, 1980
- Damaging Wind in Colorado, May 25, 1980
- Damaging Wind in Virginia, May 25, 1980
- Hail in South Dakota, May 25, 1980
- Hail in Oklahoma, May 25, 1980
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: 9995618, 9995619, 9995620, 9995621, 9995622, 9995623, 9995624, 9996474, 9996475, 9996688, 9996689, 9996690.