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Storm reports for January 21, 2017

NOAA recorded 76 hail reports, 106 wind reports and 61 tornado reports in 8 states on January 21, 2017.

in 8 states
243
Storm reports
Near 31.56, -91.99, LA
3.5 in
Largest hail
In Mobile, AL
81 mph
Highest gust
Highest rating EF3, about 55 miles from Tallahassee, FL
61
Tornado reports
Sources: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports; damage surveys from the NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit

Hail, inches

  • 0.75
  • 1
  • 1.5
  • 2
  • 2.5
  • 3+

Dots: reports.

  • Wind report
  • Tornado and its path
  • Surveyed tornado path

Source: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center, final severe weather database (from NOAA's Storm Data). Report day: 12:00 UTC on January 21, 2017 to 12:00 UTC the next day. Times are Central.

Select a dot or a path for the report. NWS survey teams walked the shaded paths after the storm; each is drawn at the widest width they found, so it can look wider than the damage at any one spot.

What happened

Before dawn on January 22, an EF3 tornado with peak winds near 140 mph tracked about 25 miles across Brooks, Cook and Berrien counties in south Georgia from 3:29 to 3:58 a.m. EST and killed 11 people.1 In Cook County it reduced about 35 manufactured homes in a mobile home park to rubble, and seven people died there.1,2 It removed second stories from homes in all three counties, and NOAA's Storm Events Database lists $2.5 million in property damage across the three counties.2,3,4

Earlier on January 21, NWS Atlanta confirmed 23 tornadoes in central Georgia, all but two rated EF0 or EF1.5 One of the two EF2s, with peak winds of 115 mph, crossed I-75 in Peach and Houston counties. It tore off all or part of the roofs of homes, blew in windows and doors, and damaged 15 to 20 homes in a mobile home park.5 In east Texas, an EF2 tornado with winds near 120 mph touched down near Scottsville in Harrison County at 4:18 p.m. CST, dropping trees on several homes and blowing away a small mobile home. NOAA lists $1 million in property damage.6

That evening, hail 1.75 to 3.5 inches across fell around Jonesville in Catahoula Parish, Louisiana, between 7:21 and 7:47 p.m. CST, and tennis ball size hail fell near Taylor in Columbia County, Arkansas, at 6:05 p.m. CST.7,8

Sources

  1. 1. NWS Tallahassee: Deadly Tornado Outbreak - January 22, 2017
  2. 2. NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database: Storm Events Database: Event 673083, tornado, Cook County, Georgia
  3. 3. NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database: Storm Events Database: Event 673054, tornado, Brooks County, Georgia
  4. 4. NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database: Storm Events Database: Event 673095, tornado, Berrien County, Georgia
  5. 5. NWS Atlanta/Peachtree City: January 21 - 22, 2017 Tornado Outbreak
  6. 6. NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database: Storm Events Database: Event 668881, tornado, Harrison County, Texas
  7. 7. NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database: Storm Events Database: Event 676294, hail, Catahoula Parish, Louisiana
  8. 8. NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database: Storm Events Database: Event 668979, hail, Columbia County, Arkansas

Reports by hour

Hail76, most at 5 PM

Wind106, most at 11 AM

Tornado61, most at 10 AM

Reports per hour, Central time. Each row has its own scale.

Every report

Source: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center.

TimeRatingWherePath
7:49 AMEF1About 34 miles from Columbus, GA5.42 mi long, 200 yd wide
7:55 AMEF1About 10 miles from Montgomery, AL0.68 mi long, 200 yd wide
7:55 AMEF1About 13 miles from Montgomery, AL1.53 mi long, 450 yd wide
7:57 AMEF0About 11 miles from Montgomery, AL0.21 mi long, 90 yd wide
8:48 AMEF1About 34 miles from Columbus, GA2.84 mi long, 100 yd wide
8:49 AMEF0About 35 miles from Columbus, GA2.38 mi long, 150 yd wide
8:55 AMEF1About 40 miles from Montgomery, AL37.34 mi long, 400 yd wide
8:56 AMEF0About 28 miles from Columbus, GA1.07 mi long, 150 yd wide
9:00 AMEF0About 30 miles from Columbus, GA0.83 mi long, 150 yd wide
9:08 AMEF0About 20 miles from Columbus, GA0.12 mi long, 50 yd wide
9:19 AMEF1About 14 miles from Columbus, GA0.92 mi long, 300 yd wide
9:33 AMEF1About 9 miles from Columbus, GA10.84 mi long, 400 yd wide
Show all 61 tornado reports
TimeRatingWherePath
10:06 AMEF0About 23 miles from Columbus, GA1.92 mi long, 100 yd wide
10:14 AMEF1About 29 miles from Columbus, GA9.52 mi long, 300 yd wide
10:18 AMEF1About 28 miles from Columbus, GA12.25 mi long, 400 yd wide
10:22 AMEF2About 34 miles from Columbus, GA5.68 mi long, 300 yd wide
10:25 AMEF1About 36 miles from Columbus, GA5.26 mi long, 200 yd wide
10:32 AMEF0About 41 miles from Columbus, GA0.78 mi long, 100 yd wide
10:39 AMEF1About 45 miles from Columbus, GA1.87 mi long, 175 yd wide
10:59 AMEF1About 51 miles from Columbus, GA8.92 mi long, 100 yd wide
11:08 AMEF0Near 32.91, -83.90, GA8.84 mi long, 250 yd wide
11:11 AMEF2Near 32.51, -83.79, GA12.85 mi long, 350 yd wide
11:46 AMEF0Near 32.53, -83.39, GA4.23 mi long, 100 yd wide
11:50 AMEF1Near 32.44, -83.31, GA4.32 mi long, 100 yd wide
11:54 AMEF1Near 32.80, -83.17, GA5.84 mi long, 100 yd wide
12:10 PMEF0Near 33.18, -83.34, GA0.57 mi long, 50 yd wide
12:20 PMEF0Near 32.67, -82.92, GA2.18 mi long, 85 yd wide
12:28 PMEF1Near 33.05, -83.10, GA0.53 mi long, 70 yd wide
12:39 PMEF0About 57 miles from Augusta, GA6.39 mi long, 100 yd wide
12:40 PMEF1About 54 miles from Augusta, GA2.59 mi long, 300 yd wide
12:45 PMEF1About 51 miles from Augusta, GA1.3 mi long, 300 yd wide
12:46 PMEF1About 48 miles from Augusta, GA8.38 mi long, 300 yd wide
1:09 PMEF0About 37 miles from Augusta, GA1.3 mi long, 250 yd wide
1:11 PMEF0About 49 miles from Augusta, GA4.8 mi long, 200 yd wide
1:23 PMEF0About 29 miles from Augusta, GA1.5 mi long, 100 yd wide
1:40 PMEF1About 22 miles from Augusta, GA1 mi long, 75 yd wide
1:42 PMEF0About 42 miles from Augusta, GA0.69 mi long, 50 yd wide
1:50 PMEF0About 53 miles from Savannah, GA0.91 mi long, 250 yd wide
1:52 PMEF1About 49 miles from Augusta, GA2.7 mi long, 525 yd wide
2:47 PMEF2About 41 miles from Augusta, GA13.78 mi long, 1600 yd wide
3:09 PMEF1About 47 miles from Columbia, SC5.47 mi long, 400 yd wide
4:18 PMEF2About 27 miles from Shreveport, LA6.93 mi long, 230 yd wide
4:19 PMEF1About 27 miles from Longview, TX0.81 mi long, 100 yd wide
4:50 PMEF2About 33 miles from Shreveport, LA13.36 mi long, 800 yd wide
5:12 PMEF2About 30 miles from Shreveport, LA10.79 mi long, 990 yd wide
5:55 PMEF1About 40 miles from Shreveport, LA3.5 mi long, 350 yd wide
5:56 PMEF2Near 31.68, -93.04, LA2.04 mi long, 300 yd wide
7:00 PMEF1Near 31.56, -92.75, LA2.23 mi long, 150 yd wide
7:04 PMEF1Near 33.17, -92.81, AR2.89 mi long, 75 yd wide
7:38 PMEF0Near 33.19, -92.48, AR0.61 mi long, 50 yd wide
7:51 PMEF0Near 31.63, -92.42, LA1.24 mi long, 150 yd wide
8:29 PMEF0Near 31.68, -92.16, LA0.16 mi long, 100 yd wide
8:45 PMEF0Near 33.24, -91.82, AR0.67 mi long, 50 yd wide
8:48 PMEF0Near 32.87, -92.17, LA0.62 mi long, 50 yd wide
9:04 PMEF1Near 32.82, -91.79, LA8.87 mi long, 300 yd wide
10:44 PMEF2Near 32.49, -88.60, MS7.28 mi long, 550 yd wide
1:56 AMEF2About 35 miles from Tallahassee, FL18.67 mi long, 700 yd wide
2:29 AMEF3About 55 miles from Tallahassee, FL24.66 mi long, 700 yd wide
3:25 AMEF1About 28 miles from Savannah, GA0.59 mi long, 250 yd wide
3:47 AMEF1Near 31.40, -83.03, GA3.11 mi long, 1200 yd wide
4:52 AMEF1Near 31.74, -82.54, GA11.12 mi long, 1900 yd wide

By state

StateReportsHailWindTornado
Georgia9385134
Alabama4482610
Louisiana382738
Mississippi241761
Arkansas2310103
South Carolina8062
Texas7403
Florida6240

Cities with reports nearby

Reports within 15 miles of the center of each city we track.

CityLargest hailHighest gustTornado reports
Mobile, AL2.0 in81 mph0
Pensacola, FL2.0 inNone0
Jackson, MS1.0 inNone0
New Orleans, LA1.0 inNone0
Savannah, GA0.75 in58 mph0
Slidell, LA0.75 inNone0
Birmingham, ALNone75 mph0
Columbus, GANone58 mph2
Daphne, ALNone81 mph0
Montgomery, ALNone58 mph3

Reports are what observers recorded near a location, not a complete record of every storm. They don’t describe conditions at any building.