Thunderstorm Wind — Choctaw, Alabama

2022-03-30 · near Gilbertown, Choctaw, Alabama

Event narrative

High winds caused tree damage a few miles south of Gilbertown.

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 1015509. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.