National Weather Service confirms Sunday tornado near Omega
OMEGA, Ga. — The National Weather Service in Tallahassee has confirmed 12 tornadoes in its coverage area during Sunday’s storms, including one just northeast of Omega in Tift County.
The NWS Tallahassee website reported an EF-1 tornado touched down at the edge of a farm a mile northeast of Omega at 7:49 p.m. Sunday. It stayed on the ground three minutes and traveled 0.72 miles. The path was 180 yards wide.
The tornado had winds of 95 miles an hour, the website reported.
Trees were damaged and uprooted, the NWS said.
“When the tornado crossed Urbana Road, it blew out part of the foundation of a large garage causing the associated wall to bow outward,” the NWS said. “There was significant shingle damage to the roof of this building.
“A bit further from the road, the tornado moved a large trailer, filled with air conditioning units and estimated to weigh 7,000 pounds in total, about three feet,” the report said. “The metal roof of the structure sheltering this and other vehicles was partially uplifted.”
The National Weather Service’s Tallahassee office said it scouted five tornadoes in Georgia, two of them EF2s and three of them EF1s. One of the EF2s went through Cairo and caused serious damage to its downtown.
The Tallahassee office confirmed five tornadoes — two EF0s, two EF1s and an EF3 — in Florida, an EF1 in Alabama and an EF0 that began in Alabama and ended in Georgia. These do not include the deadly tornadoes that hit farther north in Alabama because that’s in the coverage area of a different National Weather Service office.
The EF3 confirmed in Leon and Jefferson counties, Fla., was the strongest tornado the Tallahassee office scouted following Sunday’s storms. It had maximum winds of 140 miles per hour and left a path 6.5 miles long and 700 yards wide.
The tornado had winds of 95 miles an hour, the website reported.
Trees were damaged and uprooted, the NWS said.
“When the tornado crossed Urbana Road, it blew out part of the foundation of a large garage causing the associated wall to bow outward,” the NWS said. “There was significant shingle damage to the roof of this building.
“A bit further from the road, the tornado moved a large trailer, filled with air conditioning units and estimated to weigh 7,000 pounds in total, about three feet,” the report said. “The metal roof of the structure sheltering this and other vehicles was partially uplifted.”
The National Weather Service’s Tallahassee office said it scouted five tornadoes in Georgia, two of them EF2s and three of them EF1s. One of the EF2s went through Cairo and caused serious damage to its downtown.
The Tallahassee office confirmed five tornadoes — two EF0s, two EF1s and an EF3 — in Florida, an EF1 in Alabama and an EF0 that began in Alabama and ended in Georgia. These do not include the deadly tornadoes that hit farther north in Alabama because that’s in the coverage area of a different National Weather Service office.
The EF3 confirmed in Leon and Jefferson counties, Fla., was the strongest tornado the Tallahassee office scouted following Sunday’s storms. It had maximum winds of 140 miles per hour and left a path 6.5 miles long and 700 yards wide.