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EF1 tornado in Butler County, Alabama

Tornado December 28, 2024 · Butler County, Alabama

EF1
Rating
2.5 mi
Path length
200 yd
Path width
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 200 yards (0.11 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 touched down along McNeil Road just east of Furlong

Creek, where numerous trees were snapped. The tornado continued

to the northeast, crossing McNeil Road, continuing to snap or

uproot trees along its path. One tree fell on a home, causing

significant. The tornado continued to the northeast towards Mt

Pisgah Road, snapping and uprooting numerous trees along its

path. The tornado appears to have lifted just northeast of Mt

Pisgah Road. Special thanks to the Butler County EMA for their

assistance with this survey.

The wider storm

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.

Began near Starling (31.7130, -86.8838).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Mobile CountyEF1 Escambia CountyEF1 Conecuh CountyEF1 Baldwin CountyEF1 Monroe CountyEF0 Conecuh CountyEF0 Mobile CountyEF0 Mobile CountyEF0 Mobile County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1226777. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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