Published: April 7,2016
A tornado tore through parts of southwest Georgia early Thursday morning, damaging and destroying trailers while injuring at least six people. Damage was also reported in the Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida, metro area from what may have been two separate tornadoes Thursday morning.
Utilizing dual-polarization radar, The National Weather Service in Tallahassee, Florida, 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.
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)
Five minutes later, a trailer was completely destroyed in Dickey, Georgia, with 2 injuries requiring immediate medical attention.
The National Weather Service office in Tallahassee, Florida, issued their first tornado warning for Calhoun County, including the towns of Edison and Dickey, Georgia, 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. 
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.
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.
(MORE: Nocturnal Tornadoes Particularly Deadly)
Elsewhere, there were roughly 55 reports of severe weather Wednesday, mainly damaging straight winds, but also of large hail up to golfball size in Cartersville, Georgia, northwest of Atlanta.
A stray severe thunderstorm is still possible Thursday from southeast Virginia into the eastern Carolinas, but despite April's notoriously tornadic reputation, the severe threat will remain rather low.
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