Stats
Path length: 43.2 miles
Width: 1790 yards
Fatalities: 2
Injuries: 11
Rating: EF3
County: Webster, Sumter, Macon
Tornado Path

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SPC coordinates: Start: 31.92 / -84.55 End: 32.23 / -84.10
Note: Exact tornado path may not be straight and/or continuous.
Summary
39 tornadoes were confirmed on March 1, 2007. We look at a strong twister, given a rating of EF3 that moved through parts of Webster, Sumter, and Macon Counties in Georgia. The town of Americus was hit hard. Here is the detailed summary from the NWS Atlanta:
A total of 14 tornadoes affecting 17 counties tracked across central and east-central Georgia and within the Peachtree City, Georgia county warning area during the late afternoon and evening hours of March 1st. This was the second greatest number of tornadoes recorded to have occurred in the Peachtree City, Georgia forecast area within a 24-hour period, second only to the 16 tornadoes, affecting 18 counties, associated with Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005.
Webster:
While the overall path length of the tornado was around 40 miles, the path length within Webster county was between seven and eight miles. While the tornado reached its maximum path width of 1.0 mile in Sumter county near Americus, it was determined to be less than this within Webster county. A path of significant damage was noted across southeast Webster county. A concrete block house and two machine shops on East Centerpoint Road just northeast of Chambliss were completely destroyed. Three injuries resulted from the damage here. Twenty-five feet of asphalt in front of the home was also ripped up by the tornado. On a nearby farm, five cows were killed when they were tossed about by the tornado. A tractor-trailer traveling on Georgia Highway 520 near Chambliss was overturned causing it to catch on fire and burn. Very nearby, at the intersection of Georgia Highway 520 and TV Tower Road, a 1096 foot Georgia Public Television transmission tower was destroyed when two-thirds of the tower was twisted off by the tornado and destroyed. Only 150 feet of the 1096 foot tower was left standing after the tornado passed. Numerous trees and power lines were also down in the area.
Sumter:
Macon:
A damage survey conducted by the National Weather Service in Peachtree City confirmed that the EF3 tornado, that originated in Webster county near Chambliss and tracked across Sumter county from south of Plains, through Americus, to north of Methvins, continued briefly into extreme southern Macon county before lifting south of Oglethorpe just west of the Flint River in a very rural, swamp like area of the county. The tornado path length within Macon county was approximately three miles. Damage within Macon county was confined to trees and a few power lines.
Aerial Damage Photos via the NWS Atlanta Summary
NWS Survey Photos - Webster County
NWS Survey Photos - Sumter County
Newspaper Clippings
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