Tornadoes · United States · Georgia

1967 tornadoes in Georgia

24 tornadoes touched down in Georgia in 1967, 8 percent below the average of the record for the state. None of them killed anybody.

1966 1968 The whole country in 1967

The rating scale

Tracks are drawn in the color of the rating. The Fujita scale rates the damage rather than measuring the wind: the speeds are what that damage is taken to imply.

  1. F040 to 72 mph

    Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.

  2. F173 to 112 mph

    Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.

  3. F2113 to 157 mph

    Considerable damage. Roofs torn off well-built houses, frame homes shifted on their foundations, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, cars lifted off the ground.

  4. F3158 to 206 mph

    Severe damage. Whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned, trees debarked, heavy cars lifted and thrown.

  5. F4207 to 260 mph

    Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.

  6. F5261 to 318 mph

    Incredible damage. Strong frame houses swept off their foundations, car-sized missiles thrown more than 100 meters, steel-reinforced concrete badly damaged, high-rise buildings deformed.

  7. Unrated

    The survey recorded a tornado but could not put a number on it, most often because it crossed open country and damaged nothing a rating can be read from.

Every tornado in Georgia in 1967

March 6 3 tornadoes

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
March 610:04 PM GMT-5F1Clayton0.533$5,000 to $50,000
March 610:30 PM GMT-5F2Jasper0.8150$5,000 to $50,000
March 612:20 AM GMT-5F1Dooly1.033$5,000 to $50,000

April 23 3 tornadoes

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
April 232:00 PM GMT-5F1Troup20.827$500 to $5,000
April 234:00 PM GMT-5F0Pulaski0.110$500 to $5,000
April 234:00 PM GMT-5F1Bleckley2.033$500 to $5,000

May 6 1 tornado

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
May 69:15 PM GMT-4F1Carroll2.0150$5,000 to $50,000

May 7 2 tornadoes

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
May 710:00 AM GMT-4F1Early13.330$500 to $5,000
May 711:30 AM GMT-4F1Colquitt0.230$500 to $5,000

May 8 1 tornado

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
May 810:00 PM GMT-4F0Tift0.533$500 to $5,000

May 12 1 tornado

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
May 1210:15 AM GMT-4F1Walker0.533$50 to $500

May 15 1 tornado

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
May 152:30 PM GMT-4F1White0.933$5,000 to $50,000

May 22 2 tornadoes

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
May 2211:00 AM GMT-4F2Tift0.530$5,000 to $50,000
May 221:30 PM GMT-4F2Lowndes0.5500$5,000 to $50,000

June 19 1 tornado

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
June 194:45 PM GMT-4F2Ben Hill0.933$5,000 to $50,000

July 2 1 tornado

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
July 28:45 PM GMT-4F1Crisp0.5273$500 to $5,000

July 7 2 tornadoes

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
July 74:00 PM GMT-4F2Taylor2.030$5,000 to $50,000
July 76:45 PM GMT-4F2Screven0.533$5,000 to $50,000

July 23 1 tornado

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
July 236:15 PM GMT-4F1Baldwin0.333$500 to $5,000

August 10 1 tornado

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
August 107:30 PM GMT-4F0Houston0.437

August 19 1 tornado

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
August 198:45 PM GMT-4F2Clayton0.533$5,000 to $50,000

November 22 1 tornado

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
November 226:30 PM GMT-5F2Haralson13.9332$5,000 to $50,000

November 30 1 tornado

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
November 307:35 AM GMT-5F1Haralson2.237$5,000 to $50,000

December 18 1 tornado

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
December 185:15 PM GMT-5F2Floyd3.3272$5,000 to $50,000

Nearby

Every tornado in Georgia since 1950Warnings in force in GeorgiaThe live radar over Georgia

What this means

Ratings are the survey's, read off the damage rather than measured; the rating scale is above. Tornado counts rise through the record as reporting improved, so a year in the 1950s is not comparable with one today except for the strongest tornadoes, which were always noticed.

Sources

NOAA Storm Prediction Center tornado database, 1950-2025, the official record kept by NOAA's Storm Prediction Center.