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Tallahassee, Florida

Tift County, GA

Date Time (LST) F/EF-Scale Length (Miles) Maximum Width (Yards) Fatalities Injuries Property Damage Source*
1/30/1947 415 pm F2 2 400 0 4 $30,000 G

Moved ENE, passing west of Chula. A dozen homes were unroofed, shifted, blown down, or ripped apart.
1/28/1952 810 am F1 0.1 400 0 2 $250,000 G, SD, SPC

Moved NE in the NE part of Tifton. A dozen homes and businesses were damaged or unroofed. One person was injured in a service station, and another in a trailer.
1/20/1953 930 pm F1 8.3 150 0 1 $25,000 G, SD, SPC

Moved NE from Zion Hope to Harding. Two homes were torn apart and barns were destroyed. Tourist cabins were destroyed north of Tifton.
4/2/1955 500 pm F2 3.8 880 0 0 $25,000 SD, SPC
4/8/1957 400 pm F1 50 90 0 0 $250,000 G, SD, SPC

Skipped SE from near Chula to Harding, River Bend, Gladys, and Lax. A large home was unroofed near Chula. Other homes were shifted there. A barn and a lumber mill were destroyed in the short stretch of path near Douglas.
3/31/1962 1230 pm F1 n/a 200 0 0 $25,000 G, SD, SPC

Several homes and the American Legion Hall were unroofed in the SE part of Tifton.
12/25/1964 340 pm F2 16 300 0 0 $250,000 SD, SPC
5/8/1967 900 pm F0 0.5 33 0 0 $2,500 SD, SPC
5/22/1967 1000 am F2 0.5 30 0 0 $25,000 SD, SPC
5/15/1969 500 am F2 2 33 0 0 $2,500 SD, SPC
4/8/1974 615 pm F1 14 250 0 0 $2,500 G, SD, SPC

Skipped E from near Lester, where one woman was killed in a mobile home. The next significant damage was at Alapaha, where the police station was destroyed.
5/8/1978 1012 pm F1 7 33 0 0 $25,000 SD, SPC
11/10/1979 200 pm F1 5 50 0 0 $250,000 SD, SPC
5/20/1980 955 am F1 2 77 0 0 $2,500 SD, SPC
12/5/1983 908 pm F1 4 100 0 0 n/a SD, SPC
4/15/1985 830 pm F1 1 20 0 0 $2,500 SD, SPC
11/7/1995 500 pm F0 0.1 30 0 0 n/a SD, SPC

A tornado briefly touched down just north of Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College causing no damage according to county Emergency Management.
2/14/2000 142 am F2 5 200 0 10 $2,000,000 SD, SPC

A strong tornado crossed U.S. Highway 319 from extreme northeast Colquitt County into extreme southwest Tift County, just south of Omega. Twelve mobile homes and eight pre-fabricated homes were destroyed. Numerous frame homes were damaged, including some moved off their block foundations. Ten persons were injured. Numerous trees and power lines were down. Just northeast of Omega, a school bus was blown into a nearby home. Tift County was declared a federal disaster area. Reported by the Tift County EMA.
3/2/2007 1242 am EF1 6 150 0 0 $600,000 SD, SPC

The EF1 tornado touched down west of Chula. It damaged 20 homes, of which seven were heavily damaged and 13 suffered minor damage. The tornado also snapped and uprooted numerous trees before it crossed into southeastern Turner County.
*Sources

G - Grazulis, T. P., 1993: Significant Tornadoes 1680-1991.  A Chronology and Analysis of Events. Environmental Films, Tornado Project, St. Johsnbury, VT.
SD - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 1950-2007: Storm Data. National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, NC.
SPC - Storm Prediction Center Database
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