EF1 tornado in Colbert County, Alabama

The tornado touched down near the intersection of Lamar Road and Frankfort Road. The tornado caused immediate and widespread damage in neighborhoods southwest of downtown Tuscumbia. This includes roof damage to an elementary school off Glendora Avenue. Damage indicators were mostly a combination of uprooted hard and softwood trees. Numerous homes had roof damage associated with felled trees. As the tornado tracked into downtown, power lines and traffic signals were destroyed. Significant roof damage occurred near 5th and Main Streets where a metal roof was completely removed. As the tornado moved out of the downtown area, numerous trees were again uprooted along 5th and 6th Streets through Commons Street. The tornado snapped trees before crossing George Wallace Boulevard and the Southern Railway. Additional trees were snapped or uprooted as the tornado moved northeast approaching Woodward Avenue. At this location, part of a service station canopy was removed. Fences were knocked down on adjacent streets in this area. More softwood trees were snapped or uprooted as the tornado moved through residential areas approaching Muscle Shoals High School. On school property, several trees were snapped, some near the base, but the building itself didn't sustain any damage. There were other sporadic trees randomly snapped south of this location along portions of Washington Drive and Colorado Avenue, but this wind damage was determined to be strong winds in the rear flank downdraft of the occluding tornadic circulation. The Northwest Alabama Regional Airport measured an 84 MPH wind gust as the tornado occluded just northwest of the airfield.

An impactful severe weather event occurred during the late evening of the 15th into the early morning of the 16th. A squall line of severe thunderstorms pushed east across north Alabama, producing widespread wind damage and 6 tornadoes (1 EF-2 and 5 EF-1). Numerous trees, power poles and power lines were knocked down, resulting in road blockages and structural damage.