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EF0 tornado in Hale County, Alabama

Tornado February 13, 2007 · Hale County, Alabama

EF0

Rating

6.5 mi

Whole path

25 yd

Path width

$55K

Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 25 yards (0.01 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 touched down in far eastern Hale County just west of the town of Newbern, and then traveled east-southeast. The most extensive damage occurred in the Newbern area, on Baby Road. Several old barns and metal sheds were lightly damaged, and numerous trees were downed, including at least one that fell onto a mobile home. The tornado then continued on into extreme western Perry County.

The wider storm

An intense winter storm and passing cold front caused several tornadoes and numerous severe thunderstorms across Central Alabama.

Began near Whitsitt (32.5928, -87.5715).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Tuscaloosa County EF1 Autauga County EF0 Bibb County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 11344. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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