EF-2 Tornado Confirmed Near Adel from Sunday

ADEL, GA – A survey team from the National Weather Service in Tallahassee, Florida confirmed an EF-2 tornado with maximum winds of 115 mph touched down in Cook county near Adel Sunday afternoon.

The tornado lasted for approximately eight minutes, traveled less than six miles, and the damage path had a maximum width of eighty yards.

The tornado damaged homes, flipped mini trailers, moved parts of well-built metal buildings off their foundations, and also snapped and uprooted several trees in a neighborhood.

The complete report from the National Weather Service team is included below.

.COOK COUNTY TORNADO...

RATING:                 EF2
ESTIMATED PEAK WIND:    115 MPH
PATH LENGTH /STATUTE/:  5.911 MILES
PATH WIDTH /MAXIMUM/:   80.0 YARDS
FATALITIES:             0
INJURIES:               0

START DATE:             01/22/2023
START TIME:             06:20 PM EDT
START LOCATION:         1 NNE COOK CO A/P / COOK COUNTY / GA
START LAT/LON:          31.1474 / -83.444

END DATE:               01/22/2023
END TIME:               06:28 PM EDT
END LOCATION:           MASSEE / COOK COUNTY / GA
END LAT/LON:            31.183 / -83.3535

SURVEY SUMMARY:
THE TORNADO BEGAN JUST WEST OF INTERSTATE-75 BEFORE CROSSING
THROUGH PORTIONS OF ADEL, GA IN COOK COUNTY. THE FIRST
SIGNIFICANT STRUCTURAL DAMAGE CONSISTENT WITH EF-2 INTENSITY WAS
DONE TO A SINGLE-FAMILY HOME-STYLE BUILDING ON W MITCHELL ST
BETWEEN I-75 AND N ELM ST. HALF OF THE STRUCTURE WAS SHIFTED OFF
ITS SLAB AND BOLTED FOUNDATION. ADJACENT MINI TRAILERS WERE ALSO
FLIPPED IN ADDITION TO SHEETS OF METAL LOFTED ABOUT A HUNDRED
FEET FROM THE PROPERTY. THE SECOND LOCATION OF EF-2 DAMAGE WAS
OFF US-HIGHWAY 41 AND SOUTH AVE NEAR CARR DR WHERE A LARGE METAL
STRUCTURE BUILDING WAS SHIFTED OFF ITS BOLTED FOUNDATION. SOME
STEEL BEAMS WERE ALSO RIPPED OFF WITH A COUPLE LOFTED TO A NEARBY
RESIDENTIAL AREA. MULTIPLE LARGE TREES ON THE PROPERTY HAD THEIR
TRUNKS SNAPPED, WHILE OTHERS WERE UPROOTED.NUMEROUS
DAMAGED/FALLEN TREES, SOME UPROOTED, HAD SNAPPED AND TWISTED
TRUNKS IN A RESIDENTIAL  NEIGHBORHOOD ALONG KENT DR. SEVERAL OF
THESE TREES FELL ON TOP OF A FEW HOMES. THE DAMAGES IN THAT AREA
WERE CONSISTENT WITH EF-1 INTENSITY. CONTINUED TREE DAMAGE WAS
OBSERVED THROUGHOUT THE EAST SIDE OF THE COUNTY ALONG WITH A
SERIES OF KNOCKED OVER CENTERLINE IRRIGATION PIVOTS. THE TORNADO
THEN DESTROYED A MOTORHOME AND SNAPPED SEVERAL TREES ALONG JOINER
RD BEFORE LIFTING NEAR THE COOK COUNTY/BERRIEN COUNTY BORDER.