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EF0 tornado in Marshall County, Alabama

Tornado April 6, 2025 · Marshall County, Alabama

EF0

Rating

1.0 mi

Whole path

150 yd

Path width

$120K

Damage as recorded

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.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 150 yards (0.09 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

The tornado then proceeded into wooded area before reaching the Tennessee River-Lake Guntersville once again.

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 (34.5350, -86.1480).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Colbert County EF1 Colbert County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1259227. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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