EF1 tornado, Norwich to Griffith, Georgia, April 5, 2022

1. EF065 to 85 mph

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

2. EF186 to 110 mphthis tornado

   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

EF1

Date

April 5, 2022

Touchdown

2:29 PM EDT (18:29 UTC)

Lifted

2:35 PM EDT (18:35 UTC)

On the ground

6 minutes

Path length

3.0 miles (4.9 km)

Path width

150 yards (137 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

County

Taylor County

Touchdown point

32.532, -84.443

Lift-off point

32.549, -84.395

Record number

2204051229-01

A multi-day severe weather outbreak initiated with a warm moist air mass situated over Georgia as a strengthening upper level system pushed across central Georgia. With moderate instability in place with increased shear, combined to create numerous severe thunderstorms, taking the form of a quasi-linear convective system (QLCS) with several strong supercells ahead of the front. The resulting front stalled across central Georgia and interacted with a weaker shortwave moving up from the Gulf of Mexico, serving as a catalyst for another day of severe weather and flash flooding on April 6th.

An EF1 tornado quickly spun up as it entered Taylor County near |the county line in the community of Mauk. Several trees were |snapped and uprooted along Mt. Zion Church Road. The tornado |continued east quickly intensifying to max intensity as it crossed|Hwy 90. Numerous trees were snapped and uprooted on both sides of|Hwy 90. Also noteworthy were large clumps of grass pulled from |the ground in an open field on the west side of Hwy 90. The |tornado continued ENE where several homes sustained damage along |Henry Currington Road either from wind damaging the roof or trees |falling onto or near them. The storm continued along Henry |Currington Road where a chicken house was nearly destroyed and a |nearby home sustained minor roof damage and the barn was |completely collapsed. The tornado continued ENE into a largely |uninhabited wooded area where both radar and areal survey confirm |that it weakened and lifted. [4/5/22: Tornado #2, County #1/1, EF-1, Taylor, 2022:005].

The parent storm responsible for the EF1 tornado in western |Taylor County recycled and a new tornado formed near the McCants |Mill Pond area along Thomaston Hwy north of Butler. A few trees |were snapped and uprooted along the highway. The tornado continued|northeast in a largely uninhabited forested area before crossing |Roberta Hwy snapping and uprooted trees. The tornado reached |maximum intensity in the Fickling Mill area where large groves of |trees were completely snapped and/or uprooted as it crossed |Roberta Hwy east of Fickling Mill. Several trees were downed in an|around Fickling Mill and some roof damage was noted at the Mill |as well. The EF1 tornado lifted before reaching the county line in|the Pearce Road area. Areal survey confirms the storm lifted |before reaching the county line. [4/5/22: Tornado #3, County #1/1, EF-1, Taylor, 2022:006].

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

1 minute of warning. NWS FFC issued a tornado warning for this county at 18:28 UTC, 1 minute before the tornado touched down, in force until 19:00 UTC.

The county was under a tornado watch, issued at 16:05 UTC and running to 20:08 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 Enhanced Risk, with a 0.10 chance of a tornado within 25 miles, in the hatched area where significant tornadoes were expected. The outlook in force was issued at 16:29 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), 92 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 18:29 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 2022 tornado in GeorgiaEvery tornado in Georgia since 1950Warnings in force in Georgia nowThe forecast where you are

66 more were confirmed in the United States that day.

All 67 of them

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.