EF1 Tornado — Escambia, Alabama

2024-12-28 · near Sardine, Escambia, Alabama

Event narrative

An EF1 tornado began on the north side of I-65 along Charlie

Dawson Road where several trees were leaning over the roadway

with small tree branches taken off. As the tornado continued

northeast, it crossed Priscilla Lane continuing to knock off

small and large tree branches. The tornado strengthened as it

continued to the northeast reaching Eric Odom Road. Here multiple

trees had their tops snapped off with some trees snapped midway

up. The tornado continued to parallel this segment of Eric Odom

Road, continuing to do EF1 tree damage snapping and uprooting

multiple pines. The tornado began to occlude northward impacting

small cabins and snapping multiple trees in the adjacent forest

to the west of Barnett Highway. The tornado then approached

Grissett Bridge Road, continuing to snap multiple pines and

taking out a majority of a tree stand just south of this road.

It's probable the tornado continued northward as it finished out

the occlusion process, however there was limited road access

beyond this location. High resolution satellite imagery will be

needed to determine the exact start and end points for this

tornado when it becomes available.

Wider weather episode

A multi-day severe weather episode occurred across southeast Mississippi into southwest and south-central Alabama and the Florida Panhandle with round #1 beginning the afternoon of December 27th and lasting through the evening hours and round #2 beginning the afternoon of December 28th and lasting into the early morning hours of December 29th. Multiple tornadoes and areas of damage were reported.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1225953. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.