EF0 tornado in Russell County, Alabama

Damage was surveyed on Highway 26 on the eastern side of Hatchechubbee and determined to be consistent with a brief, EF0 tornado. The tornado tracked nearly parallel to Highway 26 where several softwood and hardwood trees were uprooted along various tree lines. The tornado ended near Colbert Road where some large branches were snapped.

A line of thunderstorms ahead of a cold front moved across Central Alabama from late on March 11 into the early morning hours of March 12. After initially only producing a few areas of wind damage, the line quickly intensified east of I-65. Around 1 AM CDT, several trees were downed across Coosa and Tallapoosa counties. Scattered tree damage was also reported in Montgomery before activity quikcly ramped up after 2:30 AM CDT. Multiple areas of rotation within the line produced three EF-0 tornadoes across Pike, Barbour, and Russell counties, along with numerous instances of tree and structural damage from straight-line wind in these three counties along with Bullock and Lee. The line exited into Georgia by 4:30 AM CDT.