PRESS RELEASE
V
ORTEK LLCMOST TORNADO-PRONE SPOT IN GEORGIA IS IN CHEROKEE COUNTY
January 8, 2008 Huntsville, Alabama
As part of an ongoing tornado research project, by means of the Site Assessment of Tornado Threat (SATT) 3.0 software, and based on National Weather Service data from 1950 through 2006, the VorTek staff have determined the most tornado-prone spot in Georgia, originally identified in March of 2003, has remained at latitude 34o19’ N, longitude 84o 39’ W, which corresponds to a location in western Cherokee County, 0.8 miles northwest of Bear Mountain, 5.5 miles west of Waleska. During the 57-year period noted, 59 tornado track segments have touched down or passed within 20 miles of this point. This includes six F0 tornadoes, twenty-three F1, nineteen F2, seven F3, and four F4. If the total land area disturbed by these tornadoes is divided by the land area within the 20-mile circle, on an annual basis the average fraction of land disturbed (or Annual Coverage Fraction) equals 1.808 x 10-3 or 0.1808%, which is the largest value for any point within Georgia.
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