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EF0 tornado in Franklin County, Alabama

Tornado February 15, 2025 · Franklin County, Alabama

EF0
Rating
2.9 mi
Path length
75 yd
Path width
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

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 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

An EF-0 tornado touched down west of Highway 61 as seen on Worldview-3 imagery causing a swath of uprooted trees. The tornado tracked northeastward damaging the roof of a chicken house, causing minor damage to the roof of a single-family home, and damage to a second chicken house off of Factory Falls Road. The track crossed Highway 43 with two homes damaged on Keeton Gap Road due to trees falling onto the roof before lifting near the intersection of Keeton Gap Road and Old Keeton Gap Road.

The wider storm

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 8 tornadoes (1 EF-2, 6 EF-1 and 1 EF-0). Numerous trees, power poles and power lines were knocked down, resulting in road blockages and structural damage.

Began near Pleasant Hill (34.4231, -87.7915).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

7 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1258884. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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