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EF0 tornado in Conecuh County, Alabama

Tornado January 12, 2023 · Conecuh County, Alabama

EF0

Rating

0.9 mi

Path length

100 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 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

The tornado briefly touched down approximately 3/4 of a mile east

of Nymph Road, where several large limbs were downed. It

continued to move to the east-northeast, crossing County Road 29,

where it uprooted several trees. The tornado lifted just

northeast of County Road 29.

The wider storm

A very warm and moist airmass developed ahead of an approaching strong cold front. Showers and thunderstorms developed ahead of the front and moved across the area. The storms produced three tornadoes along with a swath of wind damage stretching from the I-65 corridor in Conecuh County o far southeastern Crenshaw County.

Began near Searight (31.3616, -86.9346).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Mobile County EF1 Crenshaw County EFU Covington County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1074159. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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