Event details
Tornado · Confirmed
Fortson
21.01.2017 · Fortson · Georgia (US) · United States
Media
0
Sources & links
4
Damages
0
Chasing
0
Radar/Satellite
0
Coordinates
available
Damage track length
17,62 km
Max. width
0,37 km
Duration
18
Injured
0
Fatalities
0
Description
No description has been added yet.
Technical details
- Duration
- 18
- Maximum damage track width
- 0,37 km
- Damage track length
- 17,62 km
- Extent
- 100
- Type in legacy database
- Tornado
- Count
- 1
- Intensity estimate
- Damage assessment by a weather expert
- Intensity source
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_tornadoes_in_January_2017#January_21_event
- Source type
- Website
- Uncertainty / doubt
- No
- Land use at start
- Land
- Land use at end
- Land
- Surface / terrain
- Land
- Injured
- 0
- Fatalities
- 0
- Location description
- Harris
- Position
- NW of Fortson to W of Waverly Hall
- Area
- Flat
- Continent
- North America
- Geographic accuracy
- 1 km
Sources and further links
4 entries
Source
2
Source
Hauptquelle
mesonet.agron.iastate.edu open externally
Source
Quelle
mesonet.agron.iastate.edu
Link
1
Info
1
Info
Info
Several homes sustained substantial roof damage, and numerous large trees were snapped or uprooted. Intense pressure falls near the tornado caused four to six biscuit cans at Billys Super Market to pop open.
Key facts
- Date
- 21.01.2017
- Time
- 09:33:00
- Location
- Fortson
- Region
- Georgia (US)
- Country
- United States
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