Tornadoes · United States · Georgia

2019 tornadoes in Georgia

42 tornadoes touched down in Georgia in 2019, 61 percent above the average of the record for the state. None of them killed anybody.

2018 2020 The whole country in 2019

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 2019

January 4 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
January 4	6:10 AM EST	EF1	Clay	0.2	90			$10,000

February 12 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
February 12	1:29 PM EST	EF0	Fayette	0.6	150	$10,000
February 12	1:33 PM EST	EF0	Clayton	3.0	100	$25,000
February 12	2:12 PM EST	EF0	Henry	0.9	100	$15,000
February 12	2:29 PM EST	EF0	Macon	0.8	200	$10,000

February 24 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
February 24	4:33 AM EST	EF1	Coweta	2.0	150			$400,000

March 3 20 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
March 3	3:15 PM EST	EF2	Peach	6.7	420	1	$200,000
March 3	3:36 PM EST	EF0	Bibb	1.1	150		$100,000
March 3	3:42 PM EST	EF1	Twiggs	1.1	300		$50,000
March 3	4:05 PM EST	EF0	Telfair	4.0	150		$50,000
March 3	4:09 PM EST	EF0	Telfair	0.4	100		$30,000
March 3	4:18 PM EST	EF1	Wilkinson	3.1	630		$45,000
March 3	4:18 PM EST	EF0	Taylor	6.6	630		$25,000
March 3	4:19 PM EST	EF1	Harris	7.4	900		$150,000
March 3	4:24 PM EST	EF1	Washington	0.6	200		$50,000
March 3	4:30 PM EST	EF0	Jeff Davis	0.0	25
March 3	4:36 PM EST	EF1	Washington	1.4	290		$35,000
March 3	4:43 PM EST	EF0	Peach	6.4	300		$95,000
March 3	4:55 PM EST	EF1	Washington	0.2	85		$50,000
March 3	5:22 PM EST	EF0	Wayne	0.3	50
March 3	5:44 PM EST	EF2	Columbia	1.5	100
March 3	6:58 PM EST	EF1	Liberty	7.8	350
March 3	7:02 PM EST	EF1	Miller	4.1	150	1	$200,000
March 3	7:18 PM EST	EF1	Decatur	4.5	150		$20,000
March 3	7:45 PM EST	EF1	Tift	0.7	180		$50,000
March 3	7:54 PM EST	EF2	Grady	2.7	800	2	$1.0 million

March 14 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 14	8:06 PM EDT	EF0	Floyd	1.7	150			$50,000

April 14 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
April 14	10:46 AM EDT	EF0	Muscogee	8.4	100	$135,000
April 14	11:39 AM EDT	EF0	Lamar	1.1	75	$10,000
April 14	11:45 AM EDT	EF1	Lamar	4.3	150	$220,000
April 14	2:43 PM EDT	EF1	Colquitt	5.0	180	$100,000
April 14	8:53 PM EDT	EF0	Hart	2.9	100	$50,000

April 19 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
April 19	5:07 AM EDT	EF0	Fulton	0.6	150	$40,000
April 19	5:50 AM EDT	EF1	Hall	2.4	300	$75,000
April 19	11:25 AM EDT	EF1	Laurens	4.5	200	$75,000
April 19	12:05 PM EDT	EF0	Camden	0.4	10

May 4 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 4	4:53 PM EDT	EF1	Chatham	2.2	170		1

October 19 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
October 19	6:58 PM EDT	EF0	Crisp	2.0	100			$15,000

December 17 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
December 17	7:30 AM EST	EF0	Early	0.4	50
December 17	9:27 AM EST	EF1	Miller	6.6	200	$75,000
December 17	10:00 AM EST	EF0	Baker	0.2	75	$10,000
December 17	11:39 AM EST	EF2	Irwin	20.3	400	$600,000

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
March 3	2:00 PM CST	EF4	Macon, AL to GA	68.0	1,600	23	90	$1.8 million
March 3	3:58 PM CST	EF2	Quitman, AL to GA	30.9	860			$415,000
March 3	4:39 PM CST	EF0	Clay, AL to GA	10.8	75			$10,000
April 14	9:14 AM CDT	EF0	Muscogee, AL to GA	3.2	50			$150,000

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.