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EF0 tornado in Coosa County, Alabama

Tornado August 24, 2008 · Coosa County, Alabama

EF0
Rating
0.0 mi
Path length
20 yd
Path width
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

NOAA recorded where this tornado touched down but not where it lifted, so it appears as a point. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF0 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF0 is light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 65–85 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

Eyewitnesses reported a brief tornado touched down near the Coosa and Elmore County line, near the Coosa River. No damage was found. This tornado was associated with the remnants of Tropical Storm Fay.

The wider storm

Tropical Storm Fay, and its remnants after landfall, brought high winds, heavy rain, and numerous tornadoes to Central Alabama.

Began near Wetona (32.7600, -86.3600).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Cleburne CountyEF1 St. Clair CountyEF1 Blount CountyEF1 Calhoun CountyEF1 Calhoun CountyEF0 Elmore CountyEF0 Winston CountyEF0 Pike CountyEF0 Pike CountyEF0 Lowndes County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 133399. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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