EF0 tornado, Reynolds to Pope Place, Georgia, April 1, 2016

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

April 1, 2016

Touchdown

7:03 AM EDT (11:03 UTC)

Lifted

7:06 AM EDT (11:06 UTC)

On the ground

3 minutes

Path length

1.4 miles (2.2 km)

Path width

300 yards (274 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

Property damage

$15,000

Counties

Taylor and Crawford counties

Touchdown point

32.595, -84.093

Lift-off point

32.598, -84.070

Record number

1604010503-01

27 damage points were recorded along this path by NWS ABR and NWS FFC, in the Damage Assessment Toolkit the survey teams carry. The strongest indicator was rated EF0. The highest wind the damage implies is 80 mph.

• Tin peeled and some limbs down in the yard
• aerial view of uprooted trees - laying to the south-southeast (road goes northwest to southeast)
• **aerial view** tree down on shed
• **aerial view** trees down on shed

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

A deep upper-level trough and associated strong surface cold front swept through the region overnight and through the day. Moderate instability and strong low to mid-level shear ahead of this system brought strong to severe thunderstorms to Central Georgia early in the day. Damaging thunderstorm winds and a few tornadoes were observed.

A National Weather Service survey team found that a weak tornado touched down near the intersection of State Highway 128 and Thomas Road. The EF-0 tornado with maximum winds around 80 MPH snapped and uprooted several trees, overturned a camper and destroyed a small shed along Thomas Road before crossing the Flint River into Crawford County. [04/01/16: Tornado #1, County #1-2, EF0, Taylor-Crawford, 2016:001].

A National Weather Service survey team found that the EF-0 tornado that moved across eastern Taylor County crossed the Flint River briefly into Crawford County snapping and uprooting a few trees in the swamp along the river before lifting. [04/01/16: Tornado #1, County #2-2, EF0, Taylor-Crawford, 2016:001].

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

9 minutes of warning. NWS FFC issued a tornado warning for this county at 10:54 UTC, 9 minutes before the tornado touched down, in force until 11:18 UTC.

The county was under a tornado watch, issued at 01:15 UTC and running to 18:50 UTC.

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 Slight Risk. The outlook in force was issued at 05:46 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 Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 69 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 11:00 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 2016 tornado in GeorgiaEvery tornado in Georgia since 1950Warnings in force in Georgia nowThe forecast where you are

5 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.