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EF1 tornado in Mobile County, Alabama

Tornado April 10, 2024 · Mobile County, Alabama

EF1
Rating
0.2 mi
Path length
25 yd
Path width
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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 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

Brief EF-1 tornado begun on Brighton Ct removing a home's roof. It

appears the roof was removed due to a garage door failure leading

to almost complete removal. An exterior wall in the garage was

bowed out; however, a lower wind speed was assigned due to the

failure mode being the garage door and absolute lack of any other

damage surrounding the house. The tornado then crossed northwest

across Brighton Dr and dissipated near Brandy Ct while snapping some

large hardwood branches and a fence blown inward resulting in a

convergent path.

The wider storm

A severe line of thunderstorms moved across the Gulf Coast during the day. This line of storms produced large and damaging winds along with a couple of tornadoes.

Began near Georgetown (30.9186, -88.2743).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1176896. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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