Tornado, Upson
- When
- March 6, 8:20 AM EST to 8:30 AM EST
- Where
- Upson County, Thomaston to 2 mi NE of Thomaston
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 200 yd
- Property damage
- $200,000
- Coordinates
- 32.920, -84.320
Tornado in Georgia, March 6, 1996
A tornado destroyed a mobile home and a barn and did extensive damage to 20 other houses and barns. Damage was reported at the airport as well.
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
- 0
- Property damage
- $200,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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.
What happened
The episode as NWS FFC wrote it up.
A tornado destroyed a mobile home and a barn and did extensive damage to 20 other houses and barns. Damage was reported at the airport as well. Numerous trees were snapped or uprooted and power lines were downed. The tornado touched down in three locations with a total path length of 1/2 mile and a width varying from 75 to 200 yards.
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 54 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 13:20 UTC.
Event by event
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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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: 5547380.