An update on the Mothers' Day Tornado Outbreak

Meso Mike, who was up near Macon when the tornadoes ripped through that part of the state sent me some information regarding the Mothers Day tornado outbreak. I was on the phone with Mike while everything passed, just to his north. The tornadoes were embedded within a bow echo, which produced straight line winds in excess of 100mph, so the damage not caused by one of the now confirmed 11 tornadoes all over central Georgia was caused by straight line winds. Mike shared these two linked articles with me regarding the Central and North Georgia impact of the outbreak (Just as an aside, tornado reports for Sunday have been increased to 25, and Saturday's were increased to 68!).

Article 1 about the Mother's Day Tornado Outbreak

Article 2 (with video and picture links) about the Mother's Day Tornado Outbreak.

I know that I mentioned yesterday that I would not be linking all the survey reports from the weekend's events, but the Peachtree City actually has a very thorough survey report (click here) up for the event. This is a shocking report. So many lives have been impacted.

PEACHTREE CITY HAVE NOW CONFIRMED THAT AT LEAST 11 TORNADOES AFFECTED WEST CENTRAL...NORTH CENTRAL...AND CENTRAL GEORGIA EARLY SUNDAY MORNING.

Just to summarize some of the report...

**TORNADOES NO. 1 AND 2 (RATED EF2):CARROLL AND DOUGLAS COUNTIES/410 AM EDT...WIDESPREAD 25-MILE LONG PATH OF DAMAGE...UP TO THREE MILES WIDE AT SOME SPOTS...

**OUTSIDE THE TWO EF2 TORNADOES...WIDESPREAD TREE AND ROOF DAMAGE FROM STRAIGHT-LINE WINDS WAS NOTED... DAMAGE EXTENDED UP TO THREE MILES TO THE SOUTH

**TORNADO NO. 3 (RATED EF2):TROUP COUNTY/410 AM EDT... ABOUT 5.5 MILES NORTHEAST OF LA GRANGE. THE PATH OF THE DAMAGE WAS ABOUT 1 MILE LONG AND 150 YARDS WIDE.

**TORNADO NO. 4 (RATED EF2): TROUP AND MERIWETHER COUNTIES/415 AM EDT... THE TOTAL TORNADO PATH WAS ABOUT 1.75 MILES LONG. THE PATH WAS 300 YARDS WIDE IN TROUP COUNTY AND 100 YARDS WIDE IN MERIWETHER COUNTY

**TORNADO NO. 5 (RATED EF2): CLAYTON...HENRY...ROCKDALE (My home county, where a lot of my family resides... My brother was huddled in the hallway at his work on Highway 20 in Rockdale County, just ahead of the Newton County line... but stepped outside at one point to prove to his girlfriend (she was frantic about her babies at home in the path of the tornado) that everything was ok!!! What a dufus!) AND NEWTON COUNTIES/510 AM EDT... AS IT MOVED INTO ROCKDALE COUNTY...IT MOVED SOUTHEAST TOWARD
UNION SPRINGS AND THEN INTO NEWTON COUNTY NEAR HIGHWAY 20 WHERE IT LIFTED. THE APPROXIMATE STRENGTH WAS EF2 (120 TO 130 MPH) AT TOUCHDOWN. THE APPROXIMATE WIDTH WAS AROUND 100 YARDS WIDE AND TOTAL PATH LENGTH WAS ABOUT 13 MILES LONG.

**TORNADO NO. 6 (RATED EF2): BIBB AND TWIGGS COUNTIES/550 AM EDT... (I was on the phone with Mike at this point) THIS WAS NOT A CONTINUOUS PATH...BUT IT DID PRODUCE SPORADIC MAJOR DAMAGE FROM LIZELLA TO DRY BRANCH WITH WIDESPREAD STRAIGHT LINE WIND DAMAGE ASSOCIATED WITH THE SQUALL LINE. THE MOST SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE WAS IN THE CITY OF MACON. THIS TORNADO VARIED FROM AN EF0 TO EF2 WITH THE EF2 (130 MPH).

**TORNADO NO. 7 (RATED EF2): LAURENS COUNTY/636 AM EDT...*** ONE DEATH...ONE CRITICAL INJURY...TWO NON-CRITICAL INJURIES ***
A DOUBLE-WIDE MOBILE HOME WAS DESTROYED AT 2731 U.S. HIGHWAY 441...WHERE A MALE IN HIS EARLY 50S WAS KILLED. HIS WIFE REMAINS IN CRITICAL CONDITION. THEIR TWO GRANDCHILDREN SUSTAINED NON-LIFE THREATENING INJURIES. THE MAJORITY OF THE TORNADO PATH WAS RANKED AS EF0 TORNADO DAMAGE. THE PATH LENGTH OF THE TORNADO WAS APPROXIMATELY NINE MILES...WITH A MAXIMUM PATH WIDTH OF 250 YARDS. IN ADDITION...WIDESPREAD NON-TORNADIC WIND DAMAGE WAS REPORTED THROUGHOUT MUCH OF THE COUNTY...ALL THE WAY FROM THE TWIGGS COUNTY LINE ON THE WEST SIDE TO THE JOHNSON COUNTY LINE ON THE EAST SIDE.

**TORNADO NO. 8 (RATED EF1): LAURENS COUNTY/700 AM EDT... THE DAMAGE PATH WAS ABOUT 0.5 MILES LONG AND 200 YARDS WIDE.

**TORNADO NO. 9 (RATED EF3, which was the highest rating of Georgia's tornadoes over the weekend.):TREUTLEN AND MONTGOMERY COUNTIES/716 AM EDT... THE DAMAGE PATH WAS 7 MILES LONG AND 150 YARDS WIDE WITH A MAXIMUM DAMAGE RATING OF EF3.

**TORNADO NO. 10 (RATED EF2): TOOMBS COUNTY/720 AM EDT... AROUND 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NORMANTOWN. THE DAMAGE PATH WAS ABOUT ONE MILE LONG AND 150 YARDS WIDE. THERE WERE THREE MINOR INJURIES AND SEVEN FAMILIES HAVE BEEN DISPLACED FROM THEIR HOMES (The photograph above was actually shot during sunrise up in this area.)

**TORNADO NO. 11 (RATED EF1): TOOMBS COUNTY/730 AM EDT... THE DAMAGE PATH WAS 2.5 MILES LONG AND 100 YARDS WIDE.

DAMAGE SURVEY TEAMS CONTINUE TO INVESTIGATE OTHER AREAS OF DAMAGE AND ADDITIONAL TORNADO DAMAGE MAY BE DISCOVERED. THIS REPORT WILL CONTINUE TO BE UPDATED AS SOON AS THE INFORMATION FROM THESE SURVEY TEAMS BECOME AVAILABLE

Continued prayers as everyone affected by this weekend's tornadic severe weather outbreak works toward recovery. Unfortunately, for those impacted in the central plains, another risk of severe weather exists today, so recovery effects might be delayed as most of Oklahoma has been highlighted with an area of moderate risk for severe weather, including a 10% risk of tornadoes for that area.

What a year...
~Dewdrop