Tornado, Laurens
- When
- November 8, 6:00 AM EST to 6:15 AM EST
- Where
- Laurens County, Dexter to 4 mi N of Dexter
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 4 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $50,000
- Coordinates
- 32.430, -83.120
Tornado in Georgia, November 8, 1996
The tornado may have lifted back up just inside the Laurens county line but a second mobile home in Dodge county was destroyed by undetermined wind damage. A narrow wind damage path connected the two mobile homes that were destroyed.
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
- $50,000
- 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.
The tornado may have lifted back up just inside the Laurens county line but a second mobile home in Dodge county was destroyed by undetermined wind damage. A narrow wind damage path connected the two mobile homes that were destroyed. The second home was tied down. The frame and floor stayed put but everything else was spread downwind in a widening pattern similar to straight-line winds.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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
- Tornado in Georgia, November 8, 1996
- Tornado in Pennsylvania, November 8, 1996
- Flash Flood in New York, November 8 to 9, 1996
- Tornado in Maryland, November 8, 1996
- Flash Flood in Pennsylvania, November 8, 1996
- Tornado in Pennsylvania, November 8, 1996
- Flash Flood in New York, November 8 to 9, 1996
- Tornado in Pennsylvania, November 8, 1996
- Tornado in Georgia, November 8, 1996
- Flash Flood in New York, November 8, 1996
- Flash Flood in New York, November 8 to 9, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Virginia, November 8, 1996
More
Every storm in Georgia in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Georgia, 1996Warnings in Georgia, November 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: 5573198.