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EF0 tornado in Hale County, Alabama

Tornado April 19, 2009 · Hale County, Alabama

EF0

Rating

3.6 mi

Path length

25 yd

Path width

$15K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 25 yards (0.01 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. 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

The tornado touched down just to the west of AL-25 about 1 1/2 miles north of the the town of Whitsitt. It then traveled east-northeast over County Road 47 and lifted just to the east of AL-61, south of the County Road 24 intersection. About 50 trees were snapped or uprooted, and a metal roof was peeled off of an outbuilding.

The wider storm

A powerful spring storm system and associated cold front brought numerous thunderstorms to central Alabama. Many of the storms produced large hail, damaging winds, and tornadoes.

Began near Whitsitt (32.6261, -87.5949).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Blount County EF2 Russell County EF1 Perry County EF1 Perry County EF1 Montgomery County EF1 St. Clair County EF0 Shelby County EF0 Shelby County EF0 Montgomery County EF0 Bullock County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 168499. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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