Thunderstorm Wind in Pike County, Alabama

Trees were downed around Goshen, and at least one home and one outbuilding sustained minor roof/siding damage. An open-air metal building at the Goshen High School baseball field was destroyed as well, with most of the building collapsed and mangled. Most of the damage was concentrated along Eagle Cir and Alabama St.

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.