EF1 tornado, Dubois to Mukerson, Georgia, May 9, 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

May 9, 2024

Touchdown

12:50 PM EDT (16:50 UTC)

Lifted

1:00 PM EDT (17:00 UTC)

On the ground

10 minutes

Path length

12.2 miles (19.6 km)

Path width

150 yards (137 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

County

Dodge County

Touchdown point

32.306, -83.275

Lift-off point

32.244, -83.084

Record number

2405091050-01

3 damage points were recorded along this path by NWS FFC, in the Damage Assessment Toolkit the survey teams carry. The strongest indicator was rated EF0. The highest wind the damage implies is 85 mph.

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

Several waves of severe thunderstorms moved through the area from the evening hours of the 8th through the early afternoon hours of the 9th. Initial convection ahead of the first line was able to tap into ample shear to produce tornadic thunderstorms in Northwest GA. This threat transitioned more into a wind event as the first line moved through the morning of the 9th. This line continued southward into the metro causing sporadic wind damage. Thunderstorms weakened as they moved south of I20, however another line of severe made its way out of AL/TN, producing further wind damage in the North. The initial line slowly moved into the southern portion of the CWA where conditions were not as worked over and shear was stronger. Storms re-strengthened, with several producing brief tornados.

An EF1 tornado with maximum winds at 90 mph touched down|Thursday, May 9th at At 12:50 PM EDT. EF0 damage to trees was|observed along Cochran Hwy roughly a tenth of a mile northwest of|the center of Dubois. The tornado tracked southeastward crossing|Wilson Woodward Road where a swath within a stand of hardwood|trees in a field were snapped and uprooted. The tornado continued|southeastward paralleling Bell Line Road before turning ESE and|lifting up a metal roof off the awning of a home and snapping|large branches from trees. The tornado then crossed Bell Line|Road and lifted shingles off the roof of a home and lifted the|roof off of a small outbuilding. A little further southeast|the tornado intensified to its strongest point where EF1 |damage to trees was observed on Chester|Highway and in the woods along Gum Swamp Road. As the tornado|approached the intersection of Gum Swamp Road and Dublin Hwy,|EF1 damage was observed as well as EF0 damage to a small|outbuilding. A TDS signature appears on the KJGX radar near the|beginning of the EF1 damage along Belt Line Rd and remains|visible through the Dublin hwy damage. The tornado continued|east southeast producing EF0 tree damage generally along and|north of a line paralleling Glyen Hickman Road/Golden Road before|turning eastward and dissipating.

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

No tornado warning for this county appears in the archive as in force at the moment the tornado touched down. One was issued for the county at another hour that day.

The county was under a tornado watch, issued at 14:03 UTC and running to 20:03 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 0.05 chance of a tornado within 25 miles. The outlook in force was issued at 16:46 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.

Eastman (EZM), 8 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), 47 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 16:51 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

18 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.