Tornado, Towns
- When
- March 29, 3:00 AM EST
- Where
- Towns County, Hiawassee
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 25 yd
- Property damage
- $75,000
- Coordinates
- 34.950, -83.750
Tornado in Georgia, March 29, 1997
A brief F1 tornado touchdown knocked trees down. A mobile home was picked up onto another mobile home.
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
- $75,000
- 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 brief F1 tornado touchdown knocked trees down. A mobile home was picked up onto another mobile home. The second floor of a house was gone. The length, width and damage were estimated.
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 139 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 07:58 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
- Tornadoes in Tennessee, March 29, 1997
- Damaging Winds in Florida, March 29, 1997
- Tornado in Tennessee, March 29, 1997
- Lightning Strike in Maine, March 29, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Georgia, March 29, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, March 29 to 30, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Georgia, March 29, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Kentucky, March 29, 1997
- Tornado in Maryland, March 29, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Texas, March 29, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, March 29, 1997
- Lightning Strike in Maryland, March 29, 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: 5605324.