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Clay County, GA
| Date | Time (LST) | F/EF-Scale | Length (Miles) | Maximum Width (Yards) | Fatalities | Injuries | Property Damage | Source* |
| 2/25/1939 | 1130 pm | F2 | 12 | 200 | 2 | 8 | $12,000 | G |
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Moved ENE from 8m NW of Blakely to just west of Edison. One man was killed in a small home 1m S of Bluffton, as tenant homes were destroyed on three farms. |
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| 1/17/1943 | 400 pm | F2 | n/a | n/a | 0 | 0 | n/a | G |
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Moved NE, destroying barns and tenant homes on a plantation near Bluffton. The main house had a room torn off it. Minimal F2. |
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| 1/20/1963 | 500 pm | F1 | 10 | 300 | 0 | 0 | $500,000 | G, SD, SPC |
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Skipped ENE from Fort Gaines, passing south of Dawson, north of Leesburg, and ending near Warwick. Fifty buildings were damaged and a grain elevator was destroyed. The worst damage was to farms in Clay County, the only area were a clearly defined funnel was seen. About 20 buildings were destroyed by the combined tornado and downburst winds south of Dawson. About 30 farms in that area reported wind damage. |
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| 1/13/1972 | 300 am | F1 | 1.5 | 300 | 0 | 0 | $25,000 | SD, SPC |
| 5/2/2004 | 1030 am | F1 | 2 | 100 | 0 | 0 | $450,000 | SD, SPC |
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A tornado touched down and destroyed three homes and damaged two others. It also toppled several trees and power lines. The tornado moved moved northeast into Randolph County. Reported by the Clay County EMA and WALB-TV Albany. |
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| 3/1/2007 | 324 pm | EF0 | 6.9 | 100 | 0 | 0 | $250,000 | SD, SPC |
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After crossing from Alabama across Lake Eufaula, the tornado damaged several homes along Lakeview Drive, Macedonia Road, and Pataula Heights Lane. The tornado then approached Pataula Shores Circle and crossed State Highway 39. It snapped or uprooted many pines in and around Mt Zion Church Road, Frontage Trail and Hatcher Road before crossing the Clay-Quitman county line. |
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| *Sources |
G - Grazulis, T. P., 1993: Significant Tornadoes
1680-1991. A Chronology and Analysis of Events. Environmental
Films, Tornado Project, St. Johsnbury, VT. |
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