EF0 Tornado — Mobile, Alabama

2024-01-09 · near Dawes, Mobile, Alabama

Event narrative

A brief EF-0 tornado began along Cottage Hill Road just east of Dawes Road. The tornado quickly intensified knocking down fences and ripping branches off. Parts of the fence were blow across Cottage Hill rd. to the north. The tornado peaked as it moved towards Leroy Stevens rd. resulting in a low brick wall being destroyed. Uplift to the corner of the roof of a small retail building and most impressively rolling either a small trailer or small RV. The tornado then crossed Leroy Stevens Rd. before dissipating. The tornado may have continued further, but no convergent path was able to be found after this point.

Wider weather episode

Multiple rounds of severe thunderstorms moved across southwest Alabama starting during the late evening hours of January 8th and continued through early morning hours of the 9th. This system produced four EF-0's and two EF-1's in Alabama.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1156684. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.