EF0 tornado in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama

Tornado February 3, 2022 · Tuscaloosa County, Alabama

EF0

Rating

7.6 mi

Whole path

120 yd

Path width

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Hale County → Bibb County → Tuscaloosa County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 120 yards (0.07 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF0 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF0 is light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 65–85 mph. The rating comes from a survey of the worst damage after the storm, not from a wind measurement, so it says as much about what the tornado hit as about how strong it was.

What the National Weather Service wrote

National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in southeast Tuscaloosa County and determined that it was consistent with an EF0 tornado, with maximum winds near 75 mph. The tornado crossed into Tuscaloosa County from Bibb County one-half mile east of Forest Road 721. The tornado tracked northward for a few miles and dissipated just along Lake Payne Road just north of the fork with Boneyard Road. Damage consisted mainly of broken tree branches.

The wider storm

A slow moving cold front moved through Central Alabama during the afternoon and overnight hours on February 3-4. A supercell thunderstorm developed in far eastern Mississippi and produced three EF2 tornadoes as it moved across west Alabama. Additional storms produced 2 EF0 tornadoes in Elmore County. A line of storms stalled along and south of the Interstate 85 corridor, resulting in a period of heavy rainfall and flash flooding. Rainfall totals of 4-6 inches were observed over a 3 hour period.

Began near Hagler (33.0040, -87.4080).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

4 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF2 Hale County 1 dead EF2 Sumter County EF0 Elmore County EF0 Elmore County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1007159. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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