EF1 tornado — Lauderdale County, Alabama

EF1 tornado in Lauderdale County, Alabama

Tornado May 10, 2008 · Lauderdale County, Alabama

EF1

Rating

1.0 mi

Path length

250 yd

Path width

$5K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 250 yards (0.14 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 mph. The rating comes from a survey of the worst damage after the storm, not from a wind measurement, so it says as much about what the tornado hit as about how strong it was.

What the National Weather Service wrote

A tornado with peak winds of around 95 mph touched down along County Roads 181 and 515 and uprooted and snapped several trees in its path. The tornado also produced minor structural damage to an outbuilding.

The wider storm

A complex of severe thunderstorms produced wind damage and isolated tornadoes in a moist unstable environment near the junction of a warm front and approaching cold front. The tornadic circulations were embedded within the linear segments of the line of thunderstorms that moved through the area. Swaths of wind damage were reported, particularly along interstate 65 between mile markers 295 and 299 near Dodge City.

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 103878. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

EF1 tornado in Lauderdale County, Alabama

What the National Weather Service wrote

The wider storm

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