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EF0 tornado in Baldwin County, Alabama

Tornado June 15, 2023 · Baldwin County, Alabama

EF0

Rating

0.3 mi

Path length

75 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 75 yards (0.04 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

A brief EF-0 tornado touched down on the south side of County

Road 64, just west of the County Road 66 intersection. The

tornado moved southeast and stayed to the south of County Road

64. The end point is estimated. Spotty tree damage was noted

along the path, including two large hardwood trees that were

uprooted and facing back toward the west.

The wider storm

Strong thunderstorms tracked across the area and became severe in a very moist and unstable airmass. The thunderstorms produced damaging winds, large hail and a couple of weak tornadoes.

Began near Loxley (30.6182, -87.7945).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF1 Mobile County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1114695. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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