EF0 tornado in Mobile County, Alabama

A brief tornado touched down near Ellen Drive, resulting in the

loss of some shingles on a nearby home, a blown over fence, and

metal roofing from a shed which was tossed and wrapped around a

street sign. The width of the convergent pattern was really narrow

at this point, around 20 yards. The tornado then traveled

northeast across Howells Ferry Road and just east of Wulff Road

where the roof of a barn and a greenhouse tent were damaged, along

with metal roofing that was blown off a shed. Additionally, there

were large trees that were snapped. The tornado then likely

lifted shortly after.

A very active severe weather season continued as an outbreak of severe thunderstorms occurred across the area from the evening of the 30th into the early morning hours on the 31st. A strong spring storm system moved across the area. Ahead of the system plenty of Gulf moisture returned to the central Gulf coast. This led to a very unstable atmosphere over the region which combined to strong wind shear to produce 18 tornadoes which were rated from EF-0 to EF-2. In addition to the tornadoes, the storms produced damaging straight line winds and large hail. Numerous reports of damage came in from southeast Mississippi, southwest Alabama and the western Florida panhandle.