Published: April 8,2016
A damaging tornado tore through parts of southwest Georgia early Thursday morning, damaging and destroying trailers while injuring at least six people. Utilizing dual-polarization radar, NWS Tallahassee, which also oversees some parts of southern Georgia, confirmed a tornado touched down at 2:42 a.m. EDT just 13 minutes before striking a trailer park north of Edison, Georgia, about 35 miles west of Albany in southwest Georgia.
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A
frame of a destroyed home is wrapped around a tree in Calhoun County,
Georgia, following an early-morning tornado on April 7, 2016. (Desirae Duncan/WALB News10)
An NWS storm survey Thursday found storm damage consistent with an EF2 tornado, with estimated peak wind speeds up to 130 mph, along a 15.9-mile long path.
Calhoun County emergency management reported as many as four minor injuries with two trailers overturned north of Edison.
Five minutes later, a trailer was completely destroyed in Dickey, Georgia, with two injuries requiring immediate medical attention. Two other tornadoes were confirmed in Georgia, both rated EF0, in Webster and Stewart counties, according to NWS storm surveys.
NWS Tallahassee issued its first tornado warning for Calhoun County, including the towns of Edison and Dickey, 21 minutes before the tornado struck the trailer park just north of Edison and 26 minutes before it destroyed a trailer in Dickey.
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 234 AM EDT THU APR 7 2016 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL CALHOUN COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN GEORGIA... SOUTHWESTERN TERRELL COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN GEORGIA... EAST CENTRAL CLAY COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN GEORGIA... SOUTHERN RANDOLPH COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN GEORGIA... * UNTIL 300 AM EDT * AT 234 AM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR FORT GAINES...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR... EDISON AROUND 255 AM EDT. MORGAN AROUND 300 AM EDT. OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THIS TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE SUTTONS CORNER...BELLVILLE...AYCOCK MILL...CORDRAYS MILL...MOYE... CARNEGIE...DICKEY...JONES CROSSING AND ZETTO.
Radar,
NWS tornado warning polygons (in red), and tornado reports (circle
icons) from Calhoun County, Georgia, from 2:30 a.m. through 3:05 a.m.
EDT, April 7, 2016. In Florida, damage was reported in the Tampa/St. Petersburg metro area from three separate confirmed tornadoes Thursday morning.
Around 6 a.m. EDT, a tree fell into a home south of Hudson, Florida, in Pasco County. An EF0 tornado was confirmed in Pasco with maximum winds of 65 mph.
Severe reports from April 6 into early April 7, 2016. Preliminary tornado reports denoted by red dots.(NWS/SPC)
Less than an hour later, a waterspout moved ashore near Clearwater Beach, sighted by a spotter over the Bayside Bridge. A fence was torn down, signs were bent, and large trees were uprooted in Clearwater just before 7 a.m. EDT. The NWS confirmed that tornado was also an EF0 with winds as high as 65 mph. A second brief tornado occurred minutes later nearby and was also rated EF0 following a storm survey.
According to a 2008 study lead by Walker Ashley from Northern Illinois University, overnight tornadoes are 2.5 times more likely to claim lives as those during the daytime.
Despite comprising only 27.3 percent of all tornadoes from 1950-2005, Ashley et al. found these nighttime tornadoes were responsible for 39.3 percent of tornado fatalities in that period.
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In Alabama, the NWS in Birmingham said at least seven tornadoes were in progress across parts of the state Wednesday night into Thursday morning. Six of those twisters were rated EF0, but a tornado in Bullock County was rated EF2.
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