Tornado, Bulloch
- When
- January 5, 10:15 AM EST to 10:20 AM EST
- Where
- Bulloch County, Register
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 25 yd
- Injuries
- 4 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 32.370, -81.880
Tornado in Georgia, January 5, 1997
A mobile home was lifted off its foundation and demolished. A small utility trailer was thrown some distance into a plowed field.
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
- 4
- Property damage
- $25,000
- 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 CHS wrote it up.
A mobile home was lifted off its foundation and demolished. A small utility trailer was thrown some distance into a plowed field.
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 85 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 15:15 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
- Winter Storm in New Mexico, January 5 to 6, 1997
- High Wind in California, January 5 to 7, 1997
- Tornado in Alabama, January 5, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Ohio, January 5, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Ohio, January 5, 1997
- High Wind in Ohio, January 5, 1997
- Tornado in Ohio, January 5, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, January 5, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Ohio, January 5, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, January 5, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Ohio, January 5, 1997
- Tornado in Alabama, January 5, 1997
More
Every storm in Georgia in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Georgia, 1997Warnings in Georgia, January 1997
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: 5585138.