Event details
Tornado · Confirmed
Empire
05.04.2017 · Empire · Georgia (US) · United States
Media
0
Sources & links
4
Damages
0
Chasing
0
Radar/Satellite
0
Coordinates
available
Damage track length
6,8 km
Max. width
0,32 km
Duration
9
Injured
0
Fatalities
0
Description
No description has been added yet.
Technical details
- Duration
- 9
- Maximum damage track width
- 0,32 km
- Damage track length
- 6,8 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_April_2017#April_5_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
- Dodge
- Position
- S of Empire
- 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 trees were snapped or uprooted. A travel trailer and a small barn were destroyed, while a metal car was lofted and never found. A van was moved, leaving scars in the ground. A church and numerous homes sustained some roof damage.
Key facts
- Date
- 05.04.2017
- Time
- 15:05:00
- Location
- Empire
- Region
- Georgia (US)
- Country
- United States
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