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EF1 tornado in Monroe County, Alabama

Tornado December 28, 2024 · Monroe County, Alabama

EF1
Rating
2.0 mi
Whole path
150 yd
Path width

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Monroe County → Monroe County → Conecuh County → Conecuh County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 150 yards (0.09 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 a quarter of a mile south of County Road 5 and Old Federal Road junction, where a few trees were uprooted. The tornado continued to the north-northeast, uprooting a few more trees and shifting Bethany Baptist Church slightly off of its foundation. The tornado crossed into Conecuh County, moving just northeast of County Road 15, uprooting a few more trees before lifting. Special thanks to the Monroe and Conecuh County EMAs for their assistance with the 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 Burnt Corn (31.5467, -87.1615).

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 Butler CountyEF1 Baldwin CountyEF0 Conecuh CountyEF0 Mobile CountyEF0 Mobile CountyEF0 Mobile County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1229376. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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