Thunderstorm Wind in Monroe County, Alabama

In addition to the tornado, swaths of significant straight line wind

damage were surveyed in Monroe County Alabama, including in the

community of Vredenburgh where a large pine tree destroyed a

residence (estimated 90 mph), near Buena Vista and Rikard`s Mill

where damaging winds uprooted and snapped trees (90 mph), along a

private camp site east of State Highway 265 where numerous trees

were snapped (100-110 mph), and near the community of Beatrice where

additional trees were downed (90 mph).

Two storm complexes moved across southeastern Mississippi, southwestern Alabama, and into the Florida Panhandle during the early morning hours of 5/10 producing destructive straight-line winds and multiple tornadoes.