Tornado, Jefferson
- When
- March 7, 4:30 AM EST to 4:40 AM EST
- Where
- Jefferson County, Wrens to 2 mi NE of Wrens
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 3.5 mi
- Path width
- 200 yd
- Injuries
- 5 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $1.0 million
- Coordinates
- 33.230, -82.380
Tornado in Georgia, March 7, 1996
A tornado destroyed 2 brick homes and 7 mobile homes. 15 other homes were heavily damaged and 10 others had minor damage.
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
- 5
- Property damage
- $1.0 million
- 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 2 brick homes and 7 mobile homes. 15 other homes were heavily damaged and 10 others had minor damage. The path and duration of the tornado was estimated. There were intermittent touchdowns.
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 110 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 09:27 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
- Cold in Alabama, March 7 to 10, 1996
- Cold in Louisiana, March 7 to 10, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Georgia, March 7, 1996
- Flash Flood in Georgia, March 7, 1996
- Winter Storm in Vermont, March 7 to 8, 1996
- Flood in Alabama, March 7, 1996
- Winter Storm in New York, March 7 to 8, 1996
- Flash Flood in Alabama, March 7, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Alabama, March 7, 1996
- Winter Weather in Tennessee, March 7 to 8, 1996
- Winter Storm in Virginia, March 7 to 8, 1996
- Heavy Snow in Maine, March 7 to 8, 1996
More
Every storm in Georgia in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Georgia, 1996Warnings in Georgia, March 1996
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: 5547389.