EF1 tornado, Everett to Eason, Georgia, February 4, 2024

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

February 4, 2024

Touchdown

2:03 PM EST (19:03 UTC)

Lifted

2:06 PM EST (19:06 UTC)

On the ground

3 minutes

Path length

0.8 miles (1.3 km)

Path width

400 yards (366 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

Property damage

$100,000

County

Thomas County

Touchdown point

30.742, -83.836

Lift-off point

30.750, -83.845

Record number

2402041303-01

47 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 100 mph.

• Some small wood siding damage
• Building shifted slightly off foundation.

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

A mesoscale area of low pressure rapidly deepened across the northern Gulf and moved northward into the tri-state area. Pressures dropped to 991 mb as it moved from near Saint George Island into the Big Bend. As a result of this rapid deepening, a strong low level jet developed across the area with strong wind shear and sufficient instability for severe weather. A couple of tornadoes occurred, including an EF2 tornado on the eastern outskirts of Valdosta.

An EF1 tornado with peak winds estimated at 100 mph briefly touched down in southeastern Thomas County near the intersection of Scott Rd and Scott Plantation Road immediately adjacent to Seminole Plantation. The tornado crossed Scott Road and moved into Seminole Plantation where there were numerous large pine trees uprooted or snapped near the entrance to the plantation. Within the plantation, one structure was damaged from an uprooted tree landing on a portion of the building. Several other cottages suffered some shingle loss, with one structure losing the bottom portion of the wood frame around the building and another having minor chimney damage. A couple of open air barns had damage, with one having a wall collapse and another being slightly shifted off its foundation. Beyond the structures, numerous large pine trees were uprooted or snapped. When the tornado was near peak intensity several large pine trees were snapped in close proximity with several very large pine trees uprooted. Tree damage was noted beyond reachable distance due to the downed trees blocking the path further into the woods. From surveying on the northwest side of the track along an accessible road, no additional damage was noted, and the tornado is presumed to have lifted before reaching B Green Road and Parramore Fish Pond Road. The National Weather Service in Tallahassee would like to thank the Thomas County Emergency Management Agency for their support in this survey.

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

24 minutes of warning. NWS TAE issued a tornado warning for this county at 18:39 UTC, 24 minutes before the tornado touched down, in force until 19:15 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 General Thunderstorms Risk. The outlook in force was issued at 16:28 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 Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 61 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 19:02 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 2024 tornado in GeorgiaEvery tornado in Georgia since 1950Warnings in force in Georgia nowThe forecast where you are

5 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.