EF1 tornado, Flippen to Millers Mill, Georgia, March 31, 2025

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

March 31, 2025

Touchdown

1:08 PM EDT (17:08 UTC)

Lifted

1:16 PM EDT (17:16 UTC)

On the ground

8 minutes

Path length

6.5 miles (10.5 km)

Path width

100 yards (91 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

County

Henry County

Touchdown point

33.477, -84.229

Lift-off point

33.519, -84.132

Record number

2503311108-01

14 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 90 mph.

• 3 trees downed at this intersection
• Tree on house Snapped tree nearby
• carport flipped over by a house
• 2 trees snapped along E Lake Pkwy

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

A cold-front initiated a line of thunderstorms across north and central GA through the afternoon hours of the 31st. Storms brought damaging winds along the I20 corridor and south as well as six quick spin-up tornadoes. The strongest being an EF1 between McDonough and Stockbridge crossing Hwy 75. There were also a couple reports of quarter size hail southeast of Macon.

A tornado touched down innorth central Henry County on March 31 2025 at approximately 1:08 PM EDT. The tornado spun up within a strong line of|thunderstorms moving rapidly towards the northeast. The initial|touchdown point for the tornado occurred just to the southwest of|the intersection of Interstate 75 and Jodeco Rd., where it downed|three large trees. From there the tornado moved east, crossed|Interstate 75, and knocked a tree down on a home near the|intersection of Highland Dr. and Meadowbrook Dr. The tornado|then continued towards the northeast through the Eagles Landing|neighborhood on the north side of Flippen GA. After crossing HWY|42 the tornado reached its peak intensity of EF1 as it crossed|Brannan Rd. Emergency management reported approximately 40 trees|down along Brannan Rd. The tornado then continued to the|northeast where it weakened to an EF0 before crossing HWY 155 and|eventually lifting near Knight Cemetery at around 1:16 PM EDT. |While the damage within the EF0 area of the track leading up to|the EF1 damage wasn't always constant, it was consistent enough|to suggest that a circulation was present and intermittent up to|the maximum intensity. Additionally damage surveyed coincided|with where radar data suggested where a tornado was possible.

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 severe thunderstorm watch, issued at 15:33 UTC and running to 17:40 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 16:30 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 Atlanta radar (KFFC), 39 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 17:07 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 2025 tornado in GeorgiaEvery tornado in Georgia since 1950Warnings in force in Georgia nowThe forecast where you are

14 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.