A well-built concrete block church on Sylvester Rd was demolished with only parts of a few walls remaining. In addition, several concrete light poles were snapped near the base, and a large solid concrete building had its solid concrete roof shifted more than 2 inches. Additional EF3 damage was observed at the Marine Corp Logistics Base, where multiple anchored double-wide trailers were completely destroyed. The tornado caused a large portion of a warehouse at the Proctor and Gamble Plant to collapse and tossed several semi-trailers across Mock Road. Damage consistent with an EF3 tornado was observed just east of U.S. 19, destroying many mobile homes and causing the 4 fatalities. The tornado then moved through several mobile home parks just west of U.S. Most houses in this area had significant damage from falling trees. The tornado moved through the Radium Springs area, destroying nearly every tree in its path and causing EF2 damage to several houses. There was extensive tree damage and some minor to moderate damage to a few homes in this area, consistent with EF2 damage. By the time it reached Newton, the tornado was approximately 1.25 miles wide. In Dougherty County, the tornado touched down on Tarva Road. In many spots, 90 to 100 percent of the trees in the path were uprooted or snapped. Severe tree damage was observed along the entire path which was up to 1.2 miles wide. The tornado caused significant damage along the track, resulting in 4 fatalities in Albany. The tornado lifted just east of Abbeville. line and travelled over 70 miles across Dougherty, Worth, Turner, and Wilcox Counties in South Georgia. Large long-track tornado touched down near Dougherty/Baker Co. Start Location: 4 WNW Red Store Crossroads/Dougherty Co/GAĮnd Location: 2 W Abbeville / Wilcox Co / GA Thank you to our emergency management and media partners for their help in disseminating the weather warnings and gathering damage information.įigure Courtesy of Iowa Environmental Mesonet Three days of damage surveys were conducted to rate the tornadoes on the Enhanced Fujita scale and the results for each tornado are presented below. Overall this multi-day event resulted in seven tornadoes, 16 deaths and numerous injuries. After this, a long tracked tornado (track length of more than 70 miles) moved across Albany (Dougherty County) and into Worth and Turner Counties, causing extensive damage and five fatalities. An hour and a half after the Henry County tornado, two more tornadoes developed, an EF-2 that struck Clay, Randolph and Calhoun Counties (Georgia) and an EF-1 tornado that hit Franklin County, FL. This afternoon round of supercells first produced a tornado in Henry County, AL. This overnight into early Sunday morning event produced one more tornado, an EF-1 that struck Lowndes County.Ī final round of severe weather moved through Sunday afternoon as a warm front continued to push northward into southeast Alabama and southern Georgia while the main low and trailing cold front pushed eastward across the Florida panhandle and offshore regions. From the same supercell that produced the tornado in Thomas and northern Brooks Counties, another tornado developed that tracked across Brooks, Berrien and Cook Counties and this tornado resulted in 11 fatalities. This was the first tornado across the area with this multi-day event. Initially with this late Saturday night to early Sunday morning event, a strong supercell moved across southern Georgia producing a tornado that moved across Thomas and northern Brooks Counties. As it pushed eastward nine warnings were issued with a total of 18 damaging wind reports (trees and power lines downed) related to these storms.Īfter a brief lull during Saturday evening as the aforementioned squall line washed out near the Gulf Coast, strong southerly flow returned late Saturday night as a warm front pushed northward across the Florida Big Bend and southern Georgia. The first round of severe weather started during the mid-morning hours on Saturday, Januas a squall line pushed into southeast Alabama and the Florida panhandle. An Analysis of the Synoptic and Mesoscale Environments (PDF)Ī multi-day severe weather event struck the southeast January 21-22, 2017 with three rounds of severe weather moving through the area.
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