EF1 tornado in Marshall County, Alabama
Tornado April 6, 2025 · Marshall County, Alabama
NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Marshall County → Jackson County → Marshall County → Jackson County → Marshall County → Jackson County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.
The path drawn at its surveyed width of 175 yards (0.10 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.
What the National Weather Service wrote
A tornado developed in the waterway west of Holiday Shores Drive in Marshall County. The first-observed damage was a swath of softwood trees along the shore. Here, the
trees were snapped and uprooted. Just north of the trees, a single boat-slip house was destroyed. Further inland, numerous uprooted and snapped softwood trees were also
surveyed having fallen on a few homes.
The wider storm
A line of severe thunderstorms roared east-northeast through north Alabama during the evening of the 5th into the early morning hours of the 6th. The line produced four tornadoes in north Alabama and several reports of wind damage, particularly in northwest Alabama. Also, flash flooding resulted in multiple water rescues including 10 hikers in Bankhead National Forest, a woman and two childeren swept off of a road in Lawrence County, and a woman in Cullman County.
Began near Kirbytown (34.5336, -86.1605).
Other tornadoes from the same storm system
2 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1259223. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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