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2005 tornadoes in Georgia

54 tornadoes touched down in Georgia in 2005, 108 percent above the average of the record for the state. They killed 4 people and injured 34.

2004 2006 The whole country in 2005

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.

F040 to 72 mph
Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.
F173 to 112 mph
Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.
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.
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.
F4207 to 260 mph
Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.
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.
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 2005

January 13 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
January 13	5:58 PM EST	F1	Calhoun	3.0	100	2	5	$260,000
January 13	6:15 PM EST	F0	McDuffie	0.1	30
January 13	6:37 PM EST	F0	Columbia	0.2	40
January 13	6:40 PM EST	F0	Lincoln	0.1	30

March 22 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 22	1:32 PM EST	F3	Seminole	18.0	1,250	1	18	$7.0 million
March 22	2:30 PM EST	F0	Coffee	3.0	100
March 22	3:01 PM EST	F1	Mitchell	3.8	100			$250,000
March 22	3:10 PM EST	F1	Colquitt	3.7	100			$120,000
March 22	4:25 PM EST	F2	Wayne	2.0	880

May 20 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 20	6:00 PM EDT	F0	Chatham	0.8	40

July 6 7 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
July 6	6:30 PM EDT	F0	Meriwether	0.3	100	$30,000
July 6	9:00 PM EDT	F0	Coweta	0.1	50	$1,000
July 6	9:10 PM EDT	F0	Fayette	1.0	440	$1.9 million
July 6	9:45 PM EDT	F2	Henry	9.0	880	$70 million
July 6	9:55 PM EDT	F0	Henry	0.5	200	$150,000
July 6	10:00 PM EDT	F1	Henry	7.0	300	$30,000
July 6	10:04 PM EDT	F0	Clayton	1.0	100	$1.5 million

July 11 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 11	9:40 PM EDT	F0	White	5.0	220			$70,000

August 29 18 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 29	4:24 PM EDT	F2	Heard	5.5	200	1	3	$5.2 million
August 29	5:15 PM EDT	F0	Haralson	1.0	75			$10,000
August 29	5:15 PM EDT	F0	Paulding	1.0	50			$400,000
August 29	5:24 PM EDT	F1	Polk	2.8	50			$50,000
August 29	6:15 PM EDT	F0	Forsyth	0.5	50			$250,000
August 29	6:26 PM EDT	F0	Decatur	3.0	50
August 29	6:35 PM EDT	F0	Oconee	0.1	25			$10,000
August 29	6:37 PM EDT	F1	Taylor	3.5	250		1	$250,000
August 29	6:45 PM EDT	F0	Lumpkin	0.9	125			$40,000
August 29	7:06 PM EDT	F0	Evans	0.1	20
August 29	7:10 PM EDT	F2	Peach	4.0	50		3	$2.6 million
August 29	7:45 PM EDT	F0	Fannin	0.3	100			$250,000
August 29	7:45 PM EDT	F1	Spalding	1.0	100		2	$300,000
August 29	10:25 PM EDT	F0	Walton	0.3	50			$30,000
August 29	11:05 PM EDT	F0	Barrow	1.5	100			$150,000
August 29	11:35 PM EDT	F0	Jackson	1.0	20			$20,000
August 29	12:10 AM EDT	F0	Hall	11.0	50			$260,000
August 29	12:30 AM EDT	F2	White	5.0	300			$3.0 million

October 5 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
October 5	8:30 PM EDT	F0	Glynn	2.0	100			$50,000

December 4 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
December 4	5:19 PM EST	F0	Henry	1.0	100			$150,000

December 5 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
December 5	11:45 AM EST	F1	Worth	1.1	75	2	$750,000
December 5	2:45 PM EST	F0	Lanier	0.2	30
December 5	3:30 PM EST	F2	Clinch	3.0	100
December 5	4:30 PM EST	F1	Brantley	1.5	75

December 28 12 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
December 28	3:59 PM EST	F0	Pulaski	0.5	200	$100,000
December 28	4:04 PM EST	F1	Johnson	4.0	300	$500,000
December 28	4:30 PM EST	F0	Wilcox	2.5	50	$120,000
December 28	4:41 PM EST	F0	Laurens	0.5	50	$1,000
December 28	4:50 PM EST	F0	Worth	0.2	25
December 28	5:00 PM EST	F0	Worth	0.3	30	$10,000
December 28	5:05 PM EST	F1	Burke	4.0	0	$10,000
December 28	5:20 PM EST	F0	Mitchell	0.2	25
December 28	5:50 PM EST	F0	Colquitt	0.2	25
December 28	5:54 PM EST	F0	Burke	4.0	0
December 28	5:55 PM EST	F0	Irwin	0.5	30	$50,000
December 28	7:45 PM EST	F0	Bacon	0.5	100	$200,000

Nearby

Every tornado in Georgia since 1950 Warnings in force in Georgia The 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.