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EF1 tornado in Marion County, Alabama

Tornado June 5, 2024 · Marion County, Alabama

EF1

Rating

3.4 mi

Whole path

300 yd

Path width

$10K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Itawamba County, Mississippi → Marion County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 300 yards (0.17 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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 first touched down in eastern Itawamba County, Mississippi off Pate Rd and traveled northeast across the state line into Marion County, Alabama. Snapped and uprooted trees were observed, consistent with an EF1 tornado. The tornado reached a width of 300 yards as it dissipated along County Highway 94 near Bexar. The total path length of the tornado was 3.38 miles. Special thanks to NWS Memphis for completing this survey.

The wider storm

An intensifying line of thunderstorms moved eastward from Mississippi into Alabama during the late afternoon hours of June 5. Numerous reports of wind damage were received west of Interstate 65 as the line and two leading cells progressed toward the northeast. Additionally, two EF-1 tornadoes were produced within the line, one that occurred along the MS/AL state line near Bexar in far western Marion County and another that moved out of Fayette County and struck parts of Winfield in southeast Marion County. The intensity of the thunderstorms quickly diminished as the line pushed east of I-65 by sunset.

Began near Bexar (34.1835, -88.1914).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Fayette County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1171271. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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