EF1 Tornado — Wilcox, Alabama

2022-03-30 · near Camden, Wilcox, Alabama

Event narrative

The tornado began along Mayo street in Camden where a couple

trees were uprooted. The tornado quickly intensified as it moved

Northeast across Broad St. with numerous uprooted large hardwood

and softwood trees. A strong convergent pattern was noted at this

location. Peak intensity occurred as it crossed Pine Ridge Road and

Rolling Hills Dr. where several large hardwoods were snapped and

most other trees were uprooted. The tornado than began to weaken

as it crossed Highway 10. The tornado lifted just northeast of

Elizabeth Avenue but not before causing damage to a small barn and

uprooting some trees. Significant wind damage still occurred along

Elizabeth avenue southeast of the circulation where several large

hardwoods were uprooted or snapped. However, this was determined

to be straight-line wind damage given divergent pattern to the

damage right of the parent circulation.

Wider weather episode

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.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1015117. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.