EF0 tornado — Choctaw County, Alabama

EF0 tornado in Choctaw County, Alabama

Tornado April 6, 2025 · Choctaw County, Alabama

EF0

Rating

5.3 mi

Whole path

50 yd

Path width

$600K

Damage as recorded

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

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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

This tornado is a continuation of an EF2 tornado that began in

Lauderdale County Mississippi. The tornado continued into Choctaw

County Alabama producing EF-0 damage as it crossed Concord Rd in

two separate places before dissipating. This track added 2.25

miles to the total track length of roughly 5.25 miles. The peak

intensity in this segment was 75 mph. Thank you to the National

Weather Service Office in Jackson Mississippi for performing the

survey.

The wider storm

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

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1255412. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

EF0 tornado in Choctaw County, Alabama

What the National Weather Service wrote

The wider storm

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