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EF1 tornado in Choctaw County, Alabama

Tornado March 11, 2026 · Choctaw County, Alabama

EF1
Rating
1.5 mi
Path length
320 yd
Path width
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 320 yards (0.18 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

The EF-1 tornado began just west of Wildflower Rd south of

highway 84 near Isney Alabama. The tornado resulted in a few

uprooted and snapped trees as it passed over Wildflower Rd. The

tornado reached its peak intensity likely between Wildflower Rd

and Poultry Rd where it snapped several softwoods, uprooted other

trees and did damage to several chicken farm buildings. Total

damage to the chicken farm was difficult to determine given the

buildings were already damaged from a prior storm but satellite

imagery was able to assist in determining there was at least some

new damage to the buildings. As a result peak intensity was given

to the tree damage and a lower bound estimate was given to the

chicken farm. The tornado then proceeded towards highway 84 as it

slowly weakened before crossing highway 84 near Lone Star Rd.

The wider storm

A strong cold front moved across the area with a line of showers and thunderstorms. The storms produced several tornadoes and gusty winds across southwest Alabama.

Began near Isney (31.7790, -88.4662).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1319896. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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