EF0 tornado, Crowder to Huntington, Georgia, June 7, 2014

1. EF065 to 85 mphthis tornado

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

2. EF186 to 110 mph

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

3. EF2111 to 135 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. EF3136 to 165 mph

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

5. EF4166 to 200 mph

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

6. EF5over 200 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.

Rating

EF0

Date

June 7, 2014

Touchdown

1:59 AM EDT (05:59 UTC)

Lifted

2:03 AM EDT (06:03 UTC)

On the ground

4 minutes

Path length

1.8 miles (2.9 km)

Path width

280 yards (256 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

Property damage

$150,000

County

Troup County

Touchdown point

33.011, -85.150

Lift-off point

32.999, -85.122

Record number

1406072359-01

11 damage points were recorded along this path by NWS FFC, in the Damage Assessment Toolkit the survey teams carry. The strongest indicator was rated EF1. The highest wind the damage implies is 95 mph.

• Uprooted tree and numerous branches down at this location.
• Two trees uprooted at this location.
• Tree with rotted out trunk was snapped lower on its trunk. This tree fell onto a house . Also, six trees were uprooted at this location along with another snapped at the top.
• 7 to 8 trees were uprooted at this location. Two trees were snapped at their trunks. One tree fell on four cars, destroying them.

Survey points are preliminary and are the raw material the published rating was built from. Source: NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit.

A strong shortwave trough moved through the Southeast late on the 7th and early on the 8th, forming a squall line that pushed across central Georgia during the very early morning hours. A weak tornado formed in Troup County, and with a few reports of wind damage, mainly downed trees, as well.

A National Weather Service survey team determined that an overnight squall line interacted with an outflow boundary to produce a brief EF-1 tornado just east of West Point Lake in the Heritage Hills subdivision, where a couple of trees were snapped and uprooted at touchdown. The tornado continued to the southeast where additional trees were snapped and uprooted. One tree fell on three cars, crushing them. The tornado continued to the next block where it destroyed a greenhouse. The tornado lifted near Georgia Highway 29. Overall there were 50 large trees downed, several of which were on houses and vehicles. A couple of additional houses had shingle and siding damage as well.|[06/08/14: Tornado #1, County #1-1, EF1, Troup, 2014:009].

From NOAA NCEI's Storm Events Database, the narrative the local forecast office wrote for Storm Data.

No tornado warning for this county appears in the archive as in force at the moment the tornado touched down.

Every warning and watch covering the touchdown point that day, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service products. Lead time is measured from the issue of the warning in force to the touchdown time in the database, both of which were recorded to the minute by different people.

The Storm Prediction Center had this point in a General Thunderstorms Risk. The outlook in force was issued at 00:56 UTC.

SPC's Day 1 convective outlook as it stood when the tornado began, read at the touchdown point. The same archive is on the radar archive.

The radiosonde launches on either side of the tornado, from the nearest station that was launching then, drawn and analyzed the way Storm Lab does: the same diagram, the same parcel and shear definitions SPC's mesoanalysis uses.

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 66 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 05:59 UTC.

Open the radar archive at this moment, over the track

Reflectivity and velocity, decoded from the Level II archive in the browser. Volumes take a few seconds to open the first time.

Local storm reports within 60 km of the path, in the three hours either side.

From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service local storm reports.

The live radar over the trackEvery 2014 tornado in GeorgiaEvery tornado in Georgia since 1950Warnings in force in Georgia nowThe forecast where you are

10 more were confirmed in the United States that day.

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.

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