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EF1 tornado in Mobile County, Alabama

Tornado May 6, 2022 · Mobile County, Alabama

EF1
Rating
0.3 mi
Path length
25 yd
Path width
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 25 yards (0.01 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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

A brief and very narrow high end EF-1 tornado touched down at the

Greer`s and Family Dollar on Broad Street. The tornado directly

moved over the Family Dollar with the building completely destroyed.

The tornado lifted off the roof and then the roof collapsed back

down onto building, resulting in its destruction. The tornado

continued to produce sporadic EF0 damage to the northeast

and lifted near Texas Street just east of Broad Street.

The wider storm

A line of severe thunderstorms organized to the west of the area during the early morning hours and raced across the area during the morning. The storms produced several reports of wind damage along with two tornadoes.

Began near Mertz (30.6735, -88.0560).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF1 Baldwin County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1013683. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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