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EF1 tornado in Wilcox County, Alabama

Tornado April 6, 2025 · Wilcox County, Alabama

EF1
Rating
2.3 mi
Whole path
75 yd
Path width

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 75 yards (0.04 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 likely began near Godboldt Ave and Cedar Ave in Pine

Hill where a few trees were uprooted in a weakly convergent

pattern. The tornado then continued east towards county road

5 producing weak tree damage. The tornado quickly intensified and

reached peak intensity as it crossed highway 5 resulting in

several large softwood pines snapped and minor damage to a home.

The tornado then quickly crossed highway 5 where it quickly

dissipated.

The wider storm

Thunderstorms developed during the morning and produced three weak tornadoes across southwest Alabama.

Began near Pine Hill (31.9814, -87.5911).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1255410. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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