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EF0 tornado in Coosa County, Alabama

Tornado April 2, 2024 · Coosa County, Alabama

EF0
Rating
2.3 mi
Path length
175 yd
Path width
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 175 yards (0.10 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 tornado touched down near Kellyton along County Road 62 causing a corridor of timber damage that was most notable near the intersection with AL Highway 9. The tornado continued northeast crossing US Highway 280 where additional timber damage occurred. The tornado dissipated after causing additional timber damage on County Road 50. Maximum winds were estimated at 80 mph.

The wider storm

A surface low positioned over Lake Michigan moved an associated cold front through Central Alabama during the evening of April 2. While a widespread severe weather outbreak unfolded to the north, Alabama saw more concentrated areas of severe weather across northern and central counties in the state. After 10 PM CDT April 2, a small mesoscale convective vortex developed within a broken line of thunderstorms, spawning four tornadoes and areas of wind damage across northern Dallas, southern Chilton, and central and eastern Coosa counties. Three of the tornadoes were rated EF1, with damage primarily consisting of trees and sporadic small structures.

Began near Socapatoy (32.9712, -86.0793).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1161495. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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