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EF1 tornado in Lauderdale County, Alabama

Tornado April 3, 2025 · Lauderdale County, Alabama

EF1

Rating

28.0 mi

Whole path

425 yd

Path width

$930K

Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 425 yards (0.24 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

A tornado crossed over from Tishomingo County across the Tennessee River into Lauderdale County where it intensified into an EF-1. Drone imagery courtesy of Lauderdale County EMA showed large swaths of tree damage through far northwestern Lauderdale County, typically not accessible through traditional road networks. The damage continued along portions of County Road 3, at which point it was at its widest. As the tornado tracked toward the Tennessee state line, it was still uprooting and snapping several large trees before entering Hardin County in Tennessee.

The wider storm

A long track tornadic supercell moved from Tishomingo County in Mississippi through far northwest Lauderdale County in Alabama into Hardin County in Tennessee. The tornado struck mainly rural and forested parts of Lauderdale County as noted in the event report and storm survey information.

Began near Waterloo (34.9570, -88.1730).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1264094. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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