EF1 tornado, Blackville to Allon Mill, 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

5:17 PM EDT (21:17 UTC)

Lifted

5:18 PM EDT (21:18 UTC)

On the ground

1 minutes

Path length

0.8 miles (1.3 km)

Path width

200 yards (183 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

County

Treutlen County

Touchdown point

32.447, -82.426

Lift-off point

32.455, -82.418

Record number

2204051517-01

5 damage points were recorded along this path by NWS FFC, in the Damage Assessment Toolkit the survey teams carry. The strongest indicator was rated EF1. The highest wind the damage implies is 109 mph.

• Approx 100 hardwoods and softwood trees snapped

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

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.

A brief QLCS EF0 tornado quickly evolved within the line of |storms which moved through Central GA on the afternoon of Tuesday |April 5, 2022. The tornado touched down southeast of Adrian along |Hidden Acres Ln where several trees were snapped and uprooted. The|tornado continued NE crossing Crooked Run Rd before lifting. [4/5/22: Tornado #13, County #1/1, EF-0, Treutlen, 2022:016].

A fast-moving tornado began south of the intersection of Holton |Chapel Rd and Ohoopee Bend Crescent and traveled north-northeast |destroying several barns and outbuildings and heavily damaging two|homes on Ohoopee Bend Crescent. Tin roofing from the barns and |homes were thrown up to 1/3 of a mile away. Carport failed |allowing 1/2 of roof to be blown off of one home. Another home |built in the 1930s also had its carport blown off and 1/3 of roof |blown off. A double-wide trailer home was moved off its foundation|and had significant loss of siding and shingles but remained |intact. Almost all of the 100 trees in the area of the trailer |were snapped or uprooted. This area received the highest maximum |wind speed estimate of 110 mph. The tornado continued north- |northeast near the end of county road 161 downing trees and |damaging outbuildings before weakening and dissipating over |uninhabited areas near the Ohoopee and Little Ohoopee Rivers. [4/5/22: Tornado #14, County #1/1, EF-1, Treutlen, 2022:017].

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

Swainsboro (SBO), 18 km from the path, in the two hours either side.

From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of airport observations.

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 91 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 21:15 UTC.

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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.