Tornado, Harris
- When
- March 13, 5:30 PM EST to 5:32 PM EST
- Where
- Harris County, Cataula to 4 mi SW of Cataula
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 75 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 32.620, -84.920
Tornado in Georgia, March 13, 1997
Site survey done by the Birmingham NWSFO confirmed this track. Their report indicated damage to trees in Harris county before the tornado dissipated.
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
- $3,000
- 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 F0-F1 tornado that moved through Columbus in Muskogee countycontinued northeastward about a mile inside the Harris county line.Site survey done by the Birmingham NWSFO confirmed this track. Their report indicated damage to trees in Harris county before the tornado dissipated.
The radar
The Maxwell AFB radar (KMXX), 82 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:31 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
- Ice Storm in Michigan, March 13 to 14, 1997
- Tornado in Georgia, March 13, 1997
- Ice Storm in Ohio, March 13 to 14, 1997
- Storm Surge in Ohio, March 13 to 14, 1997
- Lightning Strike in Alabama, March 13, 1997
- Ice Storm in Minnesota, March 13, 1997
- Storm Surge in Ohio, March 13 to 14, 1997
- Storm Surge in Ohio, March 13 to 14, 1997
- Winter Storm in Minnesota, March 13 to 14, 1997
- Heavy Snow in Wisconsin, March 13 to 14, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Florida, March 13, 1997
- Winter Storm in Michigan, March 13 to 16, 1997
More
Every storm in Georgia in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Georgia, 1997Warnings in Georgia, March 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: 5594418.