EF1 tornado in Escambia County, Alabama

A brief EF1 tornado impacted the Poarch Creek Indian Reservation.

This tornado began in the adjacent field to the Poarch Creek

Indians Gym, first taking the scoreboard and tossing the heavy

half 200 yards downstream and the lighter half being tossed into

the adjacent field`s scoreboard approximately 500 yards away. The

tornado then impacted the gym lifting up a significant portion of

the roofing material on the west-facing side. On the east side of

the gym, a short power pole was snapped along with most of the

roofing material being deposited into the netting adjacent to the

next field in its path adjacent to the parking lot. The tornado

continued to the east-southeast, reaching its strongest point

prior to crossing Lynn McGhee Drive where it snapped numerous

small hardwood trees and pushed over several road signs. This is

also where the tornado reached its peak width at approximately

80 yards. After crossing Lynn McGhee Drive and Green Road, a

softwood tree was snapped mid trunk with a large amount of small

tree debris and limbs scattered across the adjacent field. The

tornado continued weakening as it moved southeast and then east

across Creek Drive, causing minor roofing and siding damage to

buildings. The last visible damage point was along Jack Springs

Road where a large oak tree was uprooted facing east-southeast.

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.