EF1 tornado in Clarke County, Alabama

The brief tornado began along Ft. Sin Quefield Road where several

branches and a couple trees were snapped. The tornado then

crossed the road and removed most of the roof and some exterior

metal walls of a large metal building structure. Several softwood

uproots and a couple softwood snaps were noted at this location. A

large swath of wind damage with divergent pattern extended South

along Ft. Sin Quefield Road with several snapped softwoods noted.

The tornado then lifted quickly as it approached Highway 84 where

only sporadic large tree branches were snapped. This tornado was

associated with a larger swath of 90 to 95 mph straight-line wind

damage with sporadic snapped softwoods.

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.