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EF0 tornado in Butler County, Alabama

Tornado March 1, 2007 · Butler County, Alabama

EF0

Rating

3.1 mi

Path length

30 yd

Path width

$20K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 30 yards (0.02 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

A weak tornado blew down several trees east of Georgiana. A tractor trailer was blown off State Highway 106 by the wind.

The wider storm

Isolated thunderstorms developed ahead of a strong spring cold front. One of these thunderstorms produced a significant tornado in Wilcox County.

Began near Industry (31.6334, -86.6362).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF4 Wilcox County 1 dead

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 20470. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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