Tornadoes · United States · Georgia

2021 tornadoes in Georgia

47 tornadoes touched down in Georgia in 2021, 81 percent above the average of the record for the state. None of them killed anybody. 1 were rated F4 or EF4 and above.

2020 2022 The whole country in 2021

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 2021

January 1 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
January 1	2:01 PM EST	EF0	Taylor	2.9	150	$25,000
January 1	2:18 PM EST	EF0	Crawford	0.8	100	$25,000
January 1	2:35 PM EST	EF0	Monroe	1.2	150	$100,000
January 1	2:51 PM EST	EF1	Monroe	3.3	200	$45,000

February 15 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
February 15	4:29 PM EST	EF0	Seminole	0.5	50
February 15	4:38 PM EST	EF2	Early	1.8	600		5	$500,000

March 1 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 1	6:04 AM EST	EF1	Clayton	0.7	100			$250,000

March 18 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
March 18	7:44 AM EDT	EF0	Early	3.1	50
March 18	8:49 AM EDT	EF1	Terrell	4.0	200	$20,000
March 18	9:06 AM EDT	EF1	Lee	10.4	50	$250,000
March 18	1:38 PM EDT	EF0	Pierce	0.1	5

March 25 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
March 25	9:08 PM EDT	EF1	Bartow	1.7	125	$100,000
March 25	11:37 PM EDT	EF4	Newnan–Peachtree City tornado	38.6	1,850	$21 million
March 25	11:55 PM EDT	EF1	Bartow	2.8	200	$400,000

April 24 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
April 24	8:59 AM EDT	EF1	Early	7.0	150	$75,000
April 24	9:01 AM EDT	EF0	Early	4.4	75
April 24	9:30 AM EDT	EF1	Terrell	0.9	100
April 24	9:03 PM EDT	EF2	Coffee	8.2	360

May 3 6 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
May 3	10:00 AM EDT	EF1	Douglas	1.4	250	$250,000
May 3	10:22 AM EDT	EF1	Fulton	5.7	400	$250,000
May 3	12:39 PM EDT	EF0	Walton	1.4	200	$100,000
May 3	12:54 PM EDT	EF1	Madison	5.5	250
May 3	1:29 PM EDT	EF0	Oglethorpe	1.9	200	$100,000
May 3	1:41 PM EDT	EF1	Elbert	0.1	25	$50,000

May 4 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 4	1:21 PM EDT	EF0	Lumpkin	4.7	350			$150,000

June 19 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 19	1:31 PM EDT	EF1	Early	29.0	400			$3,000

July 7 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 7	5:43 PM EDT	EF1	Camden	7.6	200		17
July 7	10:48 PM EDT	EF1	Effingham	1.9	100

August 16 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 16	1:25 AM EDT	EF1	Sumter	1.2	325			$200,000

August 17 7 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
August 17	4:34 AM EDT	EF0	Meriwether	3.4	150	$25,000
August 17	5:47 AM EDT	EF0	Twiggs	2.6	150	$50,000
August 17	6:24 AM EDT	EF1	Greene	5.5	100	$100,000
August 17	6:27 AM EDT	EF0	Baldwin	1.9	150	$50,000
August 17	8:20 AM EDT	EF1	Madison	5.9	150	$100,000
August 17	10:24 AM EDT	EF1	Banks	5.7	100	$100,000
August 17	2:34 PM EDT	EF0	Rabun	0.0	25

December 11 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
December 11	5:16 PM EST	EF0	Wilkinson	3.8	200

December 29 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
December 29	3:07 PM EST	EF0	Decatur	0.9	50	$15,000
December 29	10:52 PM EST	EF0	Bartow	1.9	100
December 29	12:03 AM EST	EF0	Hall	2.0	75
December 29	12:19 AM EST	EF1	Cherokee	0.5	100

December 30 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
December 30	3:16 PM EST	EF1	Colquitt	3.8	150	$100,000
December 30	4:03 PM EST	EF1	Cook	2.2	150	$100,000
December 30	4:32 PM EST	EF1	Jeff Davis	11.7	300
December 30	6:09 PM EST	EF0	Pulaski	10.1	200

December 31 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
December 31	5:32 PM EST	EF1	Carroll	2.8	150
December 31	5:39 PM EST	EF1	Newton	2.5	75		6

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.