PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 900 PM EDT TUE MAY 13 2008 ...REPORT ON THE NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA MOTHERS DAY TORNADO OUTBREAK... DAMAGE SURVEY TEAMS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAVE CONCLUDED THAT 15 TORNADOES AFFECTED WEST CENTRAL...NORTH CENTRAL...AND CENTRAL GEORGIA EARLY SUNDAY MORNING ON MAY 11 2008. THE TORNADOES LISTED BELOW ARE IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER. TORNADOES NO. 1 AND 2 (BOTH RATED EF2): CARROLL COUNTY/408 AM AND 425 AM EDT... /DOUGLAS AND FULTON COUNTIES AFFECTED BY VERY STRONG STRAIGHT-LINE WINDS/ WIDESPREAD DAMAGE OCCURRED ALONG 25-MILE LONG AND 3 MILE WIDE PATH OF DAMAGE....PRIMARILY DUE TO STRAIGHT-LINE WINDS. TWO BRIEF EF2 TORNADOES OCCURRED IN CARROLL COUNTY ALONG THIS PATH OF DAMAGE. THE FIRST EF2 TORNADO OCCURRED AT 408 AM IN THE COMMUNITY OF JONESVILLE APPROXIMATELY TWO MILES EAST OF WHERE THE STRAIGHT- LINE WIND DAMAGE COMMENCED. THE ROOFS WERE COMPLETELY BLOWN OFF TWO HOMES AND NUMEROUS TREES WERE DOWN IN THE AREA. THE SECOND EF2 TORNADO OCCURRED AT 425 AM NEAR DIAMOND COURT SUBDIVISION...OFF CROSS PLAINS HULETT ROAD WHERE TWO HOMES RECEIVED SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE...ONE COMPLETELY DESTROYED...AND A NUMBER OF HOMES WITH MINOR TO MODERATE ROOF DAMAGE. THE PATH LENGTH AND WIDTH OF BOTH TORNADOES WERE 100 YARDS AND WERE ON THE GROUND AROUND 1 TO 2 MINUTES. OUTSIDE THE TWO EF2 TORNADOES...WIDESPREAD TREE AND ROOF DAMAGE FROM STRAIGHT-LINE WINDS WAS NOTED ALL ALONG GEORGIA HIGHWAY 166 FROM WEST OF CARROLLTON...NEAR BOWDEN...EASTWARD TO WESTERN DOUGLAS COUNTY NEAR FAIRPLAY. THE CARROLLTON COUNTY EMERGENCY SERVICES FACILITY SUSTAINED MODERATE DAMAGE. DAMAGE CONTINUED EASTWARD ALONG GEORGIA HIGHWAY 166 TOWARD THE DOUGLAS COUNTY LINE...MAINLY IN THE FORM OF DOWNED TREES AND MINOR ROOF DAMAGE ALL ALONG THE PATH. AT VARIOUS LOCATIONS ALONG THIS PATH...DAMAGE EXTENDED UP TO THREE MILES TO THE SOUTH...BUT THIS WAS DETERMINED TO BE STRAIGHT-LINE WIND DAMAGE. THE DAMAGE FROM THIS TORNADIC AND STRAIGHT-LINE WIND EVENT EXTENDED INTO SOUTH FULTON COUNTY WHERE TREE DAMAGE WAS NOTED JUST NORTH OF FAIRBURN...ALONG SOUTH RIVER ROAD IN DOUGLASVILLE AND ALONG HIGHWAY 92 IN THE CHESTNUT RIDGE SUBDIVISION. THE DAMAGE WAS CONCLUDED TO HAVE BEEN CAUSED BY STRAIGHT LINE WINDS IN SOUTH FULTON COUNTY. TORNADO NO. 3 (RATED EF2): TROUP COUNTY/408 AM EDT... AN EF2 TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN AROUND 410 AM JUST OFF OF HIGHWAY 29 AT WILLOWWOOD RD WHICH IS ABOUT 5.5 MILES NORTHEAST OF LA GRANGE. THE PATH LENGTH WAS ABOUT 1 MILE LONG AND THE PATH WIDTH 150 YARDS WIDE. THE TORNADO DAMAGED 3 HOMES...DESTROYED A WELL HOUSE AND SNAPPED NUMEROUS LARGE TREE TRUNKS AND LIMBS ALONG ITS PATH. TORNADO NO. 4 (RATED EF2): TROUP AND MERIWETHER COUNTIES/420 AM EDT... AN EF2 TORNADO INITIALLY TOUCHED DOWN AROUND 420 AM NEAR THE 1100 BLOCK OF PERKINS ROAD IN NORTHEAST TROUP COUNTY...WHICH IS ABOUT 4.5 MILES SOUTH-SOUTHEAST OF HOGANSVILLE. THE TORNADO TRACKED EAST NORTHEAST INTO MERIWETHER COUNTY. AT PERKINS ROAD A HOUSE WAS DAMAGED AND TWO TRUCKS DESTROYED AS THEY WERE LIFTED UP AND TOSSED ABOUT 40 TO 60 FEET. AT PERKINS ROAD AND DUCHESNE LANE NEAR THE TROUP AND MERIWETHER COUNTY LINE...THE TORNADO COMPLETELY LIFTED THE ROOF OFF A BRICK HOME AND PARTIALLY DESTROYED A CINDER BLOCK OUTBUILDING. ALONG THE DAMAGE PATH IN MERIWETHER COUNTY...NUMEROUS TREES WERE SNAPPED AND UPROOTED AND ONE SHED WAS DESTROYED. THE TORNADO LIFTED ALONG SAINT MARKS ROAD ABOUT 9.25 MILES NORTHWEST OF GREENVILLE. THE TOTAL PATH LENGTH WAS ABOUT 4 MILES LONG AND THE MAXIMUM PATH WIDTH WAS 300 YARDS WIDE. TORNADO NO. 5 (RATED EF2): CLAYTON...HENRY...ROCKDALE AND NEWTON COUNTIES/517 AM EDT... AN EF2 TORNADO WITH MAXIMUM WINDS UP TO 130 MPH TOUCHED DOWN IN EXTREME NORTHEAST CLAYTON COUNTY NEAR THE HENRY COUNTY LINE JUST EAST OF INTERSTATE 675 AROUND 517 AM. SHORTLY AFTER...THE TORNADO CAUSED SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE OVER A 2.5 SQUARE MILE AREA IN THE ELLENWOOD COMMUNITY. 188 PRIVATE DWELLINGS WERE DAMAGED...53 OF WHICH WERE DESTROYED OR UNINHABITABLE. 500 RESIDENTS WERE DISPLACED. THE TORNADO WEAKENED AS CONTINUED INTO HENRY COUNTY AND ROCKDALE COUNTY INTERMITTENTLY DOWNING TREES AND POWER LINES BEFORE LIFTING IN EXTREME WESTERN NEWTON COUNTY NEAR GEORGIA HIGHWAY 20. PATH LENGTH WAS 19 MILES AND THE MAXIMUM WIDTH WAS 100 YARDS WIDE. TORNADO NO. 6 (RATED EF2): BIBB AND TWIGGS COUNTIES/550 AM EDT... AN EF2 TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN NEAR LIZELLA. THE TORNADO THEN TRACKED NORTHEAST TO THE SOUTH SHORE OF LAKE TOBESOFKEE THEN CONTINUED INTO MACON AND LIFTED NEAR DRY BRANCH NEAR THE TWIGGS COUNTY LINE. THE TORNADO DID NOT PRODUCE A CONTINUOUS PATH...BUT DID PRODUCE SPORADIC AREAS OF MAJOR DAMAGE. WIDESPREAD STRAIGHT-LINE WIND DAMAGE WAS ALSO PRODUCED ALONG AND SOUTH OF THE TRACK OF THE TORNADO. THE MOST SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE WAS IN THE CITY OF MACON ESPECIALLY ALONG EISENHOWER PARKWAY AN PIO NONO AVENUE WHERE 2 BUSINESSES WERE DESTROYED AND SEVERAL OTHERS SUSTAINING HEAVY DAMAGE. MACON STATE COLLEGE WAS ALSO HIT BY THE TORNADO...SNAPPING OR UPROOTING 50 PERCENT OR MORE OF THE TREES AND DOING SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE TO SEVERAL BUILDINGS ON CAMPUS WITH THE GYMNASIUM SUSTAINING THE WORST DAMAGE. THIS TORNADO VARIED IN INTENSITY FROM EF0 TO EF2 WITH THE EF2 DAMAGE AND WINDS UP TO 130 MPH OCCURRING NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF EISENHOWER PARKWAY AND PIO NONO AVENUE. TOTAL PATH LENGTH WAS 18 MILES WITH A PATH LENGTH OF 100 YARDS. TORNADO NO. 7 (RATED EF1): TWIGGS AND WILKINSON COUNTIES/615 AM EDT... THE STORM WHICH PRODUCED THE BIBB AND TWIGGS COUNTY TORNADO SPAWNED ANOTHER EF1 TORNADO WITH WINDS UP TO 90 MPH. THE TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN CLOSE TO FITZGERALD NEAR US HIGHWAY 80 AND WEST OF MYRICKS MILL RD WHERE A CHURCH HAD MOST OF ITS ROOF BLOWN OFF. IT CONTINUED EAST INTO WESTERN WILKINSON COUNTY PARALLELING GA HIGHWAY 96 NEAR US HWY 441. A MOBILE HOME WAS DAMAGED AT BEAVER DAM ROAD. THE TORNADO LIFTED EAST OF LONG BRANCH RD 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF TOOMSBORO. THE TOTAL PATH LENGTH 25 MILES AND MAXIMUM WIDTH WAS 100 YARDS. ADDITIONAL STRAIGHT-LINE WINDS OF 60 TO 70 MPH PRODUCED MINOR DAMAGE ALONG AND UP TO 3 MILES SOUTH OF THE TORNADO TRACK. TORNADO NO. 8 (RATED EF2): LAURENS COUNTY/636 AM EDT... *** TWO DEATHS...TWO INJURIES *** THE TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF OLD MACON ROAD AND OSCAR WYNN ROAD WITH AN INITIAL INTENSITY OF EF0. THE TORNADO CONTINUED ON AN ALMOST DUE EASTWARD TRACK AND STRENGTHENED TO EF2 INTENSITY AS IT CROSSED U.S. HIGHWAY 441 IN THE 2700 BLOCK...ABOUT SEVEN MILES NORTHWEST OF DUBLIN...NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF EVERGREEN ROAD AND U.S. HIGHWAY 441. A DOUBLE-WIDE MOBILE HOME WAS DESTROYED AT 2731 U.S. HIGHWAY 441...WHERE A MALE IN HIS EARLY 50S WAS KILLED ALONG WITH HIS WIFE. THEIR TWO GRANDCHILDREN SUSTAINED NON-LIFE THREATENING INJURIES. ANOTHER HOME WAS DAMAGED ALONG EVERGREEN ROAD AS THE TORNADO CONTINUED AT EF2 INTENSITY. SPORADIC DAMAGE TO TREES CONTINUED FURTHER EASTWARD...BUT THE TORNADO WEAKENED TO AN EF0 AS IT CROSSED THE OCONEE RIVER. THE TORNADO ONCE AGAIN STRENGTHENED TO AN EF2 AS IT CROSSED BUCKEYE ROAD IN THE 2100 BLOCK...AND THEN WEAKENED TO AN EF1 AS IT CROSSED NEW BUCKEYE ROAD IN THE 1500 BLOCK. EF2 DAMAGE TO A HOME WAS OBSERVED AT 2185 BUCKEYE ROAD...AND EF1 DAMAGE TO ANOTHER HOME AT 1533 BUCKEYE ROAD. THE MAJORITY OF THE TORNADO PATH WAS RANKED AS EF0 TORNADO DAMAGE. THE TOTAL PATH LENGTH OF THE TORNADO WAS APPROXIMATELY NINE MILES...WITH A MAXIMUM PATH WIDTH OF 250 YARDS AS IT CROSSED U.S. 441 NEAR EVERGREEN ROAD. ALL TOGETHER...THERE WERE TWO MOBILE HOMES DESTROYED...SIX OTHER HOMES WITH MAJOR DAMAGE...SOME SHIFTED OFF THEIR FOUNDATIONS...AT LEAST ONE WITH ITS ROOF MISSING...AND MANY WITH MINOR ROOF OR SIDING DAMAGE. NUMEROUS SHEDS AND OUTBUILDINGS WERE DESTROYED. MANY TREES WERE EITHER UPROOTED OR SNAPPED OFF ALONG THE PATH OF THE TORNADO. IN ADDITION...WIDESPREAD NON-TORNADIC WIND DAMAGE WAS REPORTED THROUGHOUT MUCH OF THE COUNTY...PRIMARILY ALONG AND SOUTH OF THE TRACK OF THE TORNADO...ALL THE WAY FROM THE TWIGGS COUNTY LINE ON THE WEST SIDE TO THE JOHNSON COUNTY LINE ON THE EAST SIDE. TORNADO NO. 9 (RATED EF1) LAURENS AND JOHNSON COUNTIES/644 AM EDT... AN EF1 TORNADO DEVELOPED IN EXTREME NORTHERN LAURENS COUNTY...1 MILE WEST OF TUCKERS CROSSROADS...OR ABOUT 9 MILES WEST-SOUTHWEST OF WRIGHTSVILLE AT 644 AM EDT. NEAR TUCKERS CROSSROADS...THE TORNADO DESTROYED ONE MOBILE HOME...PUSHED A MANUFACTURED HOME OFF ITS FOUNDATION...AND MOVED A TRUCK 30 FEET. THE TORNADO DOWNED NUMEROUS TREES AND DAMAGED SEVERAL HOMES IN THE WRIGHTSVILLE AREA BEFORE LIFTING APPROXIMATELY 1 MILE NORTHEAST OF WRIGHTSVILLE IN JOHNSON COUNTY AT 654 AM EDT. THE PATH LENGTH WAS 10 MILES AND WAS UP TO 1/3 OF A MILE WIDE. TORNADO NO. 10 (RATED EF0) WASHINGTON AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES/645 AM EDT... AN EF0 TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN NEAR GEORGIA HIGHWAY 15 AND MAYVIEW ROAD TRACKING EAST FOR APPROXIMATELY 33 MILES THROUGH JEFFERSON COUNTY AND INTO BURKE COUNTY BEFORE LIFTING AT 722 AM. MANY STRUCTURES WERE DAMAGED BUT MOST OF THE DAMAGE WAS MINOR. MAXIMUM PATH WIDTH WAS 1/4 MILE. ADDITIONAL STRAIGHT-LINE WINDS ESTIMATED AT 60 TO 70 MPH CAUSED DAMAGE ALONG A 1 TO 2 MILE WIDE SOUTH OF THE TORNADO... CAUSING MODERATE DAMAGE TO STRUCTURES IN LOUISVILLE...NORTH OF SANDERSVILLE AND NORTH PARTS OF DAVISBORO. TORNADO NO. 11 (RATED EF1) LAURENS COUNTY/700 AM EDT... THIS TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN ABOUT 1 MILE NORTH OF LOWERY IN SOUTHEAST LAURENS COUNTY. ONE MOBILE HOME WAS DESTROYED AND NUMEROUS TREES WERE SNAPPED AND UPROOTED. THE DAMAGE PATH WAS ABOUT 0.5 MILES LONG AND MAXIMUM WIDTH WAS 200 YARDS WIDE. TORNADO NO. 12 (RATED EF2) JOHNSON AND EMANUEL COUNTIES/701 AM EDT... AN EF2 TORNADO FORMED 1 MILE NORTHWEST OF KITE AT 701 AM EDT... ROLLING A MOBILE HOME AND DAMAGING OTHER HOMES AND CARS ALONG US HIGHWAY 221 NORTH OF KITE. THE MOST SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE OCCURRED ALONG MINTON CHAPEL ROAD...3 MILES NORTH OF KITE WHERE A MOBILE HOME WAS COMPLETELY DESTROYED AND ITS DEBRIS THROWN UP TO 50 FEET. A METAL BUILDING IN THE SAME AREA HAD SUBSTANTIAL WALL...FRAME...AND COLUMN ANCHOR FAILURES. THE TORNADO LIFTED 1 MILE WEST OF BLUNDALE IN EMANUEL COUNTY JUST NORTH OF CORDIE RD AT 709 AM EDT. THE TORNADO WAS RATED EF2 WITH ESTIMATED WINDS OF 130 MPH...A MAXIMUM WIDTH 1/2 MILE...AND A TOTAL PATH LENGTH OF 8 MILES. IN ADDITION... STRAIGHT-LINE WINDS ESTIMATED UP TO 90 MPH OCCURRED ALONG AND UP TO 2 MILES SOUTH OF THE TORNADO TRACK PRODUCING WIDESPREAD TREE AND PRIMARILY MINOR STRUCTURE DAMAGE. A GYMNASIUM IN KITE DID SUSTAIN MASONRY WALL AND ROOF DAMAGE. SEVERAL OTHER STRUCTURES AND NUMEROUS TREES WERE ALSO DAMAGED IN THE TOWN. TORNADO NO. 13 (RATED EF3) TREUTLEN AND MONTGOMERY COUNTIES/711 AM EDT... AN EF3 TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN ABOUT 3 MILES SOUTH-SOUTHEAST OF SOPERTON AND TRACKED 7 MILES INTO EXTREME NORTHEASTERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY. ONE TWO STORY HOUSE HAD THE SECOND FLOOR COMPLETELY REMOVED. THE TORNADO ALSO DESTROYED NUMEROUS SHEDS AND OUTBUILDINGS ALONG ITS PATH. THE MAXIMUM PATH WIDTH WAS 150 YARDS WIDE. TORNADO NO. 14 (RATED EF2): TOOMBS COUNTY/720 AM EDT... AN EF2 TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN AROUND 3 MILES SOUTH-SOUTHWEST OF NORMANTOWN IN EXTREME NORTHWEST TOOMBS COUNTY. THE PATH LENGTH WAS ABOUT ONE MILE LONG AND THE MAXIMUM PATH WIDTH WAS 150 YARDS WIDE. IN THE NORMANTOWN AREA...ABOUT FOUR MILES NORTH OF VIDALIA...DAMAGE INCLUDED THREE MOBILE HOMES DESTROYED...ONE BRICK HOUSE HAD MAJOR DAMAGE...AND NUMEROUS SHEDS AND OUTBUILDINGS WERE DESTROYED. IT ALSO TURNED OVER A TRACTOR- TAILER RIG AND KNOCKED DOWN APPROXIMATELY 200 TO 300 PINE TREES. THERE WERE THREE MINOR INJURIES AND SEVEN FAMILIES HAVE BEEN DISPLACED FROM THEIR HOMES. TORNADO NO. 15 (RATED EF1): TOOMBS COUNTY/735 AM EDT... THE STORM WHICH PRODUCED THE TORNADO SOUTH-SOUTHWEST OF NORMANTOWN PRODUCED ANOTHER TORNADO...RATED EF1...ABOUT 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF LYONS IN NORTHEAST TOOMBS COUNTY. NUMEROUS TREES WERE SNAPPED OR UPROOTED ALONG THE PATH. THIS TORNADO MOVED NORTHEAST THEN CURVED TO AN EAST DIRECTION BEFORE MOVING INTO TATTNALL COUNTY. /PLEASE REFER TO THE PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT REPORT ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON FOR MORE INFORMATION ON TATTNALL COUNTY TORNADO./ THE TOTAL PATH LENGTH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDING THE PORTION IN TATTNALL COUNTY WAS 7 MILES. THE PATH LENGTH IN TOOMBS COUNTY WAS 2.5 MILES AND THE MAXIMUM PATH WIDTH WAS 100 YARDS WIDE. MINOR CORRECTIONS OR ADDITIONS MAY BE REQUIRED TO THIS REPORT AS NEW INFORMATION BECOMES AVAILABLE. FOR MORE INFORMATION...PLEASE CONTACT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT 770 486 1133 OR VISIT OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/ATLANTA.