Tornadoes · United States · Georgia

2023 tornadoes in Georgia

55 tornadoes touched down in Georgia in 2023, 111 percent above the average of the record for the state. They killed 4 people and injured 72.

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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 2023

January 3 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
January 3	5:42 PM EST	EF0	Coweta	0.6	150
January 3	6:25 PM EST	EF0	DeKalb	0.3	100

January 4 6 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries
January 4	5:02 AM EST	EF1	Heard	2.5	100
January 4	8:48 AM EST	EF1	Washington	3.8	400	1
January 4	9:12 AM EST	EF0	Jefferson	5.2	500
January 4	12:35 PM EST	EF0	Clinch	0.6	300
January 4	1:09 PM EST	EF1	Pierce	3.2	200
January 4	1:40 PM EST	EF0	Charlton	0.2	50

January 12 13 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries
January 12	3:30 PM EST	EF1	Cobb	1.5	150
January 12	3:34 PM EST	EF2	Troup	35.8	1,060		8
January 12	3:45 PM EST	EF2	Meriwether	23.4	1,500
January 12	4:10 PM EST	EF3	Pike	31.2	2,200		18
January 12	4:13 PM EST	EF2	Pike	21.6	1,000
January 12	4:15 PM EST	EF1	Warren	18.3	150
January 12	4:16 PM EST	EF1	Pike	7.6	300
January 12	4:17 PM EST	EF1	Pike	10.8	800
January 12	4:27 PM EST	EF2	Spalding	125.8	1,400	4	40
January 12	4:35 PM EST	EF1	Butts	5.7	150
January 12	4:49 PM EST	EF1	Butts	20.5	500
January 12	7:00 PM EST	EF1	Wilcox	3.1	100
January 12	7:03 PM EST	EF0	Wilcox	2.2	200

January 22 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
January 22	5:20 PM EST	EF2	Cook	5.9	80	$500,000
January 22	6:11 PM EST	EF1	Coffee	3.7	210
January 22	6:32 PM EST	EF1	Bacon	7.5	600

February 17 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
February 17	4:31 AM EST	EF1	Troup	5.7	200

March 3 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 3	3:08 PM EST	EF1	Gordon	3.7	150

March 25 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 25	4:17 PM EDT	EF0	Laurens	1.5	100

March 26 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 26	6:49 AM EDT	EF3	Troup	21.5	500		5
March 26	7:40 AM EDT	EF1	Baldwin	7.0	250

March 27 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 27	7:06 AM EDT	EF1	Meriwether	8.7	150
March 27	8:52 AM EDT	EF0	Twiggs	0.3	50

April 1 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 1	7:35 AM EDT	EF0	Cherokee	2.5	75

April 3 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 3	1:40 PM EDT	EF1	Decatur	1.4	150
April 3	1:48 PM EDT	EF1	Decatur	0.4	250			$25,000

April 13 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 13	2:37 PM EDT	EF1	Crisp	4.8	150
April 13	4:21 PM EDT	EF0	Bleckley	0.9	100

April 27 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 27	6:11 PM EDT	EF1	Thomas	1.2	160
April 27	6:20 PM EDT	EF1	Thomas	2.3	75			$5,000

June 14 9 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
June 14	11:37 AM EDT	EF1	Quitman	3.6	50
June 14	2:04 PM EDT	EF2	Early	18.9	700	$250,000
June 14	2:54 PM EDT	EF1	Baker	3.6	150	$1,000
June 14	3:45 PM EDT	EF0	Turner	0.1	50
June 14	5:40 PM EDT	EF1	Randolph	1.4	300	$50,000
June 14	5:40 PM EDT	EF1	Randolph	3.3	425	$50,000
June 14	6:35 PM EDT	EF0	Berrien	0.1	50
June 14	7:08 PM EDT	EF0	Bulloch	0.2	250
June 14	7:27 PM EDT	EF1	Effingham	7.0	280

July 17 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 17	4:17 PM EDT	EF0	Camden	0.7	10

July 20 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 20	5:13 PM EDT	EF0	Pickens	2.5	100
July 20	5:23 PM EDT	EF1	Pickens	1.9	100

August 3 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 3	3:51 PM EDT	EF0	Franklin	10.4	25

August 30 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
August 30	7:30 AM EDT	EF0	Glynn	9.8	50
August 30	7:40 AM EDT	EF1	Glynn	7.9	300
August 30	8:05 AM EDT	EF1	Glynn	0.3	50
August 30	10:00 AM EDT	EF0	Liberty	0.5	100

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
January 12	2:08 PM CST	EF2	Chambers, AL to GA	20.7	1,600

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.