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EF2 tornado in Elmore County, Alabama

Tornado November 30, 2022 · Elmore County, Alabama

EF2
Rating
6.3 mi
Path length
400 yd
Path width
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 400 yards (0.23 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

National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in southeast Elmore County and determined that it was consistent with an EF2 tornado, with maximum winds near 115 mph. The tornado began along Rock Springs Road north of Rifle Range Road, downing branches and causing damage to an outbuilding. It continued northeastward through inaccessible forest land, before snapping and uprooting trees along Dark Corners Road and New Quarter Road. A majority of a roof was removed from a home along New Quarter Road with one exterior wall collapsing. It continued northeastward uprooting more trees along Rifle Range Road before dissipating prior to reaching Highway 229.

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 Ware (32.4892, -86.0017).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Montgomery County 2 deadEF1 Greene CountyEF1 Marengo CountyEF0 Walker CountyEF0 Blount CountyEF0 Calhoun CountyEF0 Pike CountyEF0 Pike CountyEF0 Barbour County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1066690. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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