EF0 tornado in Mobile County, Alabama

Another tornado began south of Howells Ferry Road, east of

Howells Lane. A couple trees were snapped in the residential area,

along with fencing down and the roof of an awning that was blown

down. A basketball hoop was knocked over into a brick pillar,

destroying the pillar. The storm progressed north-northeast and

uprooted one or two large trees and caused several snapped trees.

Minor roof damage was noted to a nearby home along with bent

garage doors as well. The tornado likely continued north-northeast

over more forest and dissipated possibly over an adjacent

landfill. Debris from this landfill was tossed into upstream

residential areas.

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.