Tornadoes · United States · Georgia

2017 tornadoes in Georgia

117 tornadoes touched down in Georgia in 2017, 350 percent above the average of the record for the state. They killed 16 people and injured 151.

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The rating scale

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

EF065 to 85 mph
Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.
EF186 to 110 mph
Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.
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.
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.
EF4166 to 200 mph
Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.
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.
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 2017

January 2 9 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
January 2	5:58 PM EST	EF1	Stewart	0.6	200	$60,000
January 2	9:12 PM EST	EF2	Early	4.3	400	$500,000
January 2	9:14 PM EST	EF1	Seminole	3.7	600	$250,000
January 2	9:18 PM EST	EF2	Early	10.9	1,000	$500,000
January 2	9:34 PM EST	EF2	Early	4.4	500	$100,000
January 2	9:41 PM EST	EF1	Miller	9.9	1,000	$50,000
January 2	9:52 PM EST	EF0	Calhoun	0.7	400	$250,000
January 2	10:08 PM EST	EF1	Mitchell	4.0	200	$100,000
January 2	10:32 PM EST	EF1	Worth	8.9	600	$500,000

January 21 29 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
January 21	8:49 AM EST	EF1	Troup	5.4	200	$50,000
January 21	10:33 AM EST	EF1	Harris	10.8	400	$75,000
January 21	11:06 AM EST	EF0	Talbot	1.9	100	$10,000
January 21	11:14 AM EST	EF1	Talbot	9.5	300	$65,000
January 21	11:18 AM EST	EF1	Taylor	12.3	400	$100,000
January 21	11:22 AM EST	EF2	Upson	5.7	300	$300,000
January 21	11:25 AM EST	EF1	Upson	5.3	200	$75,000
January 21	11:32 AM EST	EF0	Upson	0.8	100	$20,000
January 21	11:39 AM EST	EF1	Upson	1.9	175	$20,000
January 21	11:59 AM EST	EF1	Macon	8.9	100	$30,000
January 21	12:08 PM EST	EF0	Monroe	8.8	250	$15,000
January 21	12:11 PM EST	EF2	Peach	12.8	350	$295,000
January 21	12:46 PM EST	EF0	Twiggs	4.2	100	$50,000
January 21	12:50 PM EST	EF1	Bleckley	4.3	100	$30,000
January 21	12:54 PM EST	EF1	Wilkinson	5.8	100	$10,000
January 21	1:10 PM EST	EF0	Putnam	0.6	50	$25,000
January 21	1:20 PM EST	EF0	Laurens	2.2	85	$12,000
January 21	1:28 PM EST	EF1	Baldwin	0.5	70	$10,000
January 21	1:39 PM EST	EF0	Johnson	6.4	100	$10,000
January 21	1:40 PM EST	EF1	Washington	2.6	300	$30,000
January 21	1:45 PM EST	EF1	Washington	1.3	300	$50,000
January 21	1:46 PM EST	EF1	Washington	8.4	300	$60,000
January 21	2:09 PM EST	EF0	Burke	1.3	250
January 21	2:11 PM EST	EF0	Emanuel	4.8	200	$50,000
January 21	2:23 PM EST	EF0	Burke	1.5	100
January 21	2:40 PM EST	EF1	Burke	1.0	75
January 21	2:42 PM EST	EF0	Screven	0.7	50
January 21	2:50 PM EST	EF0	Tattnall	0.9	250
January 21	2:52 PM EST	EF1	Screven	2.7	525

January 22 15 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
January 22	2:56 AM EST	EF2	Thomas	18.7	700		3	$270,000
January 22	3:29 AM EST	EF3	Brooks	24.7	700	11	45	$2.5 million
January 22	4:25 AM EST	EF1	Liberty	0.6	250
January 22	4:47 AM EST	EF1	Coffee	3.1	1,200
January 22	5:52 AM EST	EF1	Appling	11.1	1,900
January 22	7:00 AM EST	EF1	Lowndes	4.8	400			$250,000
January 22	2:38 PM EST	EF2	Clay	12.0	400		1	$650,000
January 22	3:15 PM EST	EF3	Dougherty	70.4	2,200	5	88	$310 million
January 22	3:52 PM EST	EF1	Crisp	6.9	300			$20,000
January 22	4:00 PM EST	EF1	Crisp	0.3	900			$10,000
January 22	4:15 PM EST	EF1	Bleckley	2.2	100			$20,000
January 22	4:22 PM EST	EF0	Bleckley	0.6	50			$10,000
January 22	4:47 PM EST	EF1	Atkinson	3.1	1,200
January 22	6:26 PM EST	EF1	Camden	16.6	120
January 22	6:29 PM EST	EF1	Camden	1.6	120

February 7 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
February 7	4:36 PM EST	EF1	Harris	2.3	250			$150,000

February 9 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
February 9	3:51 AM EST	EF2	Bulloch	9.8	300		7

March 1 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 1	4:27 PM EST	EF1	Murray	2.9	150			$100,000

March 21 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 21	9:03 PM EDT	EF0	Barrow	0.1	100			$20,000
March 21	9:03 PM EDT	EF1	Jackson	0.4	100			$75,000

April 3 28 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
April 3	10:58 AM EDT	EF1	Carroll	2.4	300	$50,000
April 3	11:28 AM EDT	EF1	Fulton	4.1	150	$100,000
April 3	11:42 AM EDT	EF1	Muscogee	3.3	175	$100,000
April 3	12:10 PM EDT	EF0	Stewart	1.6	150	$100,000
April 3	12:16 PM EDT	EF0	Stewart	1.4	100	$20,000
April 3	12:17 PM EDT	EF1	Lumpkin	4.6	350	$75,000
April 3	12:18 PM EDT	EF0	Talbot	2.2	75	$25,000
April 3	12:26 PM EDT	EF1	Talbot	3.6	200	$50,000
April 3	12:29 PM EDT	EF0	Webster	3.9	150	$15,000
April 3	12:35 PM EDT	EF0	Spalding	0.6	150	$50,000
April 3	12:36 PM EDT	EF0	Upson	1.7	75	$30,000
April 3	12:44 PM EDT	EF1	Upson	6.7	150	$20,000
April 3	12:46 PM EDT	EF1	Schley	5.5	200	$500,000
April 3	12:52 PM EDT	EF0	Henry	1.8	250	$50,000
April 3	1:06 PM EDT	EF1	Monroe	8.1	300	$300,000
April 3	1:30 PM EDT	EF1	Peach	9.2	600	$175,000
April 3	1:40 PM EDT	EF0	Jones	2.9	100	$50,000
April 3	1:56 PM EDT	EF1	Twiggs	5.8	440	$30,000
April 3	2:03 PM EDT	EF2	Wilkinson	3.3	200	$100,000
April 3	2:06 PM EDT	EF1	Twiggs	7.9	350	$170,000
April 3	2:10 PM EDT	EF0	Worth	0.0	10
April 3	2:16 PM EDT	EF0	Wilkinson	4.1	90	$25,000
April 3	2:21 PM EDT	EF0	Hancock	3.3	200	$20,000
April 3	2:26 PM EDT	EF0	Wilkinson	6.6	150	$30,000
April 3	2:28 PM EDT	EF0	Wilkinson	0.2	100	$30,000
April 3	2:36 PM EDT	EF1	Washington	5.7	250	$30,000
April 3	2:56 PM EDT	EF0	Washington	0.4	150	$10,000
April 3	3:00 PM EDT	EF1	Washington	7.5	300	$75,000

April 5 7 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
April 5	12:03 PM EDT	EF1	Coweta	4.0	350	$20,000
April 5	12:09 PM EDT	EF1	Walton	2.9	350	$40,000
April 5	12:27 PM EDT	EF2	Randolph	16.9	1,320	$150,000
April 5	1:40 PM EDT	EF0	Sumter	3.2	150	$30,000
April 5	1:55 PM EDT	EF1	Dooly	8.8	200	$150,000
April 5	3:05 PM EDT	EF1	Dodge	4.1	350	$200,000
April 5	3:38 PM EDT	EF2	Laurens	20.2	400	$170,000

April 27 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 27	1:15 PM EDT	EF2	Talbot	21.7	700			$317,000

May 1 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 1	10:07 AM EDT	EF0	Chattahoochee	0.5	50			$12,000
May 1	10:24 AM EDT	EF0	Forsyth	2.4	150			$25,000

May 4 6 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
May 4	1:25 PM EDT	EF0	Atkinson	0.0	35
May 4	2:04 PM EDT	EF1	Coffee	1.9	60
May 4	2:20 PM EDT	EF1	Jeff Davis	1.0	70
May 4	5:50 PM EDT	EF1	Chatham	2.8	120	5
May 4	9:12 PM EDT	EF0	Fulton	0.1	50		$50,000
May 4	9:40 PM EDT	EF0	DeKalb	1.1	80		$15,000

May 23 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
May 23	11:46 AM EDT	EF0	Randolph	10.2	50		$2,000
May 23	12:56 PM EDT	EF1	Lee	10.6	100		$50,000
May 23	1:46 PM EDT	EF1	Crisp	5.2	150	2	$100,000
May 23	2:00 PM EDT	EF1	Wilcox	1.6	50		$500,000
May 23	5:53 PM EDT	EF2	Chatham	7.5	300

May 24 8 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
May 24	9:45 AM EDT	EF1	Whitfield	1.6	200	$20,000
May 24	10:47 AM EDT	EF0	Gordon	0.3	90	$10,000
May 24	10:50 AM EDT	EF0	Gordon	0.3	90	$30,000
May 24	11:16 AM EDT	EF0	Gilmer	0.1	30	$8,000
May 24	11:43 AM EDT	EF0	Fannin	0.1	35	$7,000
May 24	2:05 PM EDT	EF0	Laurens	2.3	240	$25,000
May 24	4:48 PM EDT	EF0	Cook	1.1	568	$5,000
May 24	11:09 PM EDT	EF1	Toombs	4.2	440	$50,000

August 4 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 4	7:46 PM EDT	EF1	Bibb	1.9	200			$100,000

December 20 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
December 20	1:15 PM EST	EF0	Meriwether	3.2	125			$30,000

Crossed into Georgia

Tornadoes that touched down in a neighboring state and ran into Georgia. They are counted under the state they began in.

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 5	10:49 AM CDT	EF2	Quitman, AL to GA	10.4	1,140			$600,000

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.