EF1 tornado, Barwick to Sand Hill, Georgia, April 6, 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 6, 2022

Touchdown

9:12 PM EDT (01:12 UTC)

Lifted

9:23 PM EDT (01:23 UTC)

On the ground

11 minutes

Path length

7.9 miles (12.7 km)

Path width

300 yards (274 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

Property damage

$60,000

Counties

Thomas and Brooks counties

Touchdown point

30.872, -83.748

Lift-off point

30.929, -83.633

Record number

2204061912-01

51 damage points were recorded along this path by NWS TAE, in the Damage Assessment Toolkit the survey teams carry. The strongest indicator was rated EF1. The highest wind the damage implies is 105 mph.

• Roof off dugout opposite direction
• Tree on back half of house. Back portion of home collapsed due to impact - not so much the wind. Front half of home is undamaged.
• Some roof damagw from tree strike
• Roof impacts. Adjacent car was moved.

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

A slow moving cold front brought multiple rounds of severe weather to the tri-state region from April 5-7. Several tornadoes occurred along with numerous reports of wind damage and a few reports of large hail. None of the tornadoes were rated stronger than EF1.

This tornado touched down just west of GA Highway 33 in Thomas County south of Barwick. The tornado crossed the highway and impacted a single family home causing roof and chimney damage to the residence. One barn was destroyed on site and another was heavily damaged. Homes directly east of the initial residence had only cosmetic damage, though large pecan trees were uprooted and snapped. The tornado crossed Dixie Barwick Road southeast of Barwick where numerous trees in the area were snapped or uprooted. The tornado continued through rural portions of the county, damaging a barn south of Barwick Road. The tornado crossed Moore Road and caused substantial tree damage with several large pines snapped. An abandoned residence in the area suffered damage from fallen trees. The tornado crossed Barwick Road near Coffee Road and continued causing significant tree damage around a residence on Coffee Road. An outbuilding at this residence suffered structural damage. The tornado continued along Coffee Road, eventually lifting in the vicinity of Tallokas Road south of Willis Road.

This is a continuation of the Thomas county EF1 tornado into Brooks county with max winds estimated at 105 mph. This tornado touched down just west of GA Highway 33 in Thomas County south of Barwick. The tornado crossed the highway and impacted a single family home causing roof and chimney damage to the residence. One barn was destroyed on site and another was heavily damaged. Homes directly east of the initial residence had only cosmetic damage, though large pecan trees were uprooted and snapped. The tornado crossed Dixie Barwick Road southeast of Barwick where numerous trees in the area were snapped or uprooted. The tornado continued through rural portions of the county, damaging a barn south of Barwick Road. The tornado crossed Moore Road and caused substantial tree damage with several large pines snapped. An abandoned residence in the area suffered damage from fallen trees. The tornado crossed Barwick Road near Coffee Road and continued causing significant tree damage around a residence on Coffee Road. An outbuilding at this residence suffered structural damage. The tornado continued along Coffee Road, eventually lifting in the vicinity of Tallokas Road south of Willis Road.

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

33 minutes of warning. NWS TAE issued a tornado warning for this county at 00:39 UTC, 33 minutes before the tornado touched down, in force until 01:19 UTC.

The county was under a tornado watch, issued at 19:50 UTC and running to 04:00 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 Slight Risk, with a 0.02 chance of a tornado within 25 miles. The outlook in force was issued at 00:43 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.

Thomasville (TVI), 18 km from the path, in the two hours either side.

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

The Moody AFB radar (KVAX), 66 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 01:10 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

12 more were confirmed in the United States that day.

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.