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EF0 tornado in Elmore County, Alabama

Tornado November 30, 2022 · Elmore County, Alabama

EF0
Rating
9.9 mi
Whole path
360 yd
Path width
2
Deaths
2
Injuries

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Elmore County → Montgomery County → Elmore County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 360 yards (0.20 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF0 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF0 is light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 65–85 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

National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in southwest Elmore County and determined that it was consistent with an EF0 tornado, with maximum winds near 65 mph. The tornado began just west of the Montgomery County line near the Alabama River Parkway, where an outbuilding and retaining wall were damaged. It tracked east and crossed the Alabama River into Montgomery County.

The wider storm

A very dynamic and deepening low pressure system moved through the Ohio Valley states on November 29-30 with a trailing cold. The air mass across Central Alabama was initially stable during the day on November 29th with surface dewpoints in the 40s and 50s. Instability increased dramatically the evening of the 29th as 60 plus surface dewpoints advected northward into Central Alabama. A QLCS developed ahead of the approaching cold front in addition to discrete thunderstorms.

Began near Prattville Jct (32.4385, -86.3318).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

9 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF2 Elmore CountyEF1 Greene CountyEF1 Marengo CountyEF0 Walker CountyEF0 Blount CountyEF0 Calhoun CountyEF0 Pike CountyEF0 Pike CountyEF0 Barbour County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1066417. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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