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EF0 tornado in Mobile County, Alabama

Tornado January 9, 2024 · Mobile County, Alabama

EF0

Rating

0.7 mi

Path length

30 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 30 yards (0.02 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, weak EF0 tornado occurred in the Bayou La Batre area north of Old Rock Road. The tornado path was visible via high resolution satellite imagery with a few tree uproots and other minor vegetation damage.

The wider storm

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.

Began near Delchamps (30.4046, -88.1839).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Baldwin County EF0 Mobile County EF0 Mobile County EF0 Baldwin County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1156685. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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