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EF0 tornado in Dale County, Alabama

Tornado March 31, 2025 · Dale County, Alabama

EF0

Rating

0.7 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

$25K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF0 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF0 is light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 65–85 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

A brief EF0 touched down with numerous large limbs and tops of tree torn down, a neighbors shed flipped over, and a fence blown over. This damage coincided with a TDS on radar crossing S County Road 59.

The wider storm

A strong spring cold front moved through the area with strong to severe storms ahead of it. Damaging winds gusts and a couple of tornadoes occurred across the tri-state region.

Began near Midland City (31.3400, -85.5100).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF1 Houston County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1244142. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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