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F1 tornado in Lamar County, Alabama

Tornado April 20, 1995 · Lamar County, Alabama

Rating

4.0 mi

Path length

80 yd

Path width

Injuries

$650K

Damage as recorded

What F1 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F1 meant moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken; the scale paired it with winds of 73–112 mph, figures later judged too high, especially toward the top of the scale, and revised downward in the Enhanced Fujita scale. Ratings then, as now, came from the damage.

What the National Weather Service wrote

A tornado began about six miles southwest of Vernon just north of the location where County 9 crosses the Yellow Creek. The tornado moved north directly toward Vernon, but lifted about two miles southwest of the center of town.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 10314281. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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