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EF0 tornado in Russell County, Alabama

Tornado March 1, 2007 · Russell County, Alabama

EF0

Rating

11.7 mi

Whole path

50 yd

Path width

Injury

$28.1M

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Russell County → Lee County → Muscogee County, Georgia; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 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 near the Russell-Lee County line, on the northwest side of Phenix City. Damage near the touchdown point in Russell County was very light with only minor tree damage.

The wider storm

A powerful spring storm system brought an outbreak of tornadoes, damaging winds, and large hail to Central Alabama.

Began near Ladonia (32.5071, -85.0427).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Lowndes County EF2 Winston County EF1 Dallas County EF1 Fayette County EF1 Tuscaloosa County EF1 Jefferson County EF1 Shelby County EF1 Barbour County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 22780. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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