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EF2 tornado in Elmore County, Alabama

Tornado November 30, 2022 · Elmore County, Alabama

EF2
Rating
9.9 mi
Whole path
700 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 700 yards (0.40 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF2 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF2 is considerable damage: roofs torn off well-built houses, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, consistent with estimated gusts of 111–135 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

This tornado crossed the Tallapoosa River from Montgomery County and into Elmore County. An impressive swath of trees were uprooted on the west side of Highway 231. The tornado continued northeastward along Jasmine Hill Road and Willow Springs Road, where several homes were damaged from falling trees. The tornado finally dissipated south of Willow Springs Road east of Ross Ridge Lane.

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 Man (32.4640, -86.2100).

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 1066419. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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