EF0 tornado in Coosa County, Alabama

Tornado March 2, 2012 · Coosa County, Alabama

EF0

Rating

28.2 mi

Whole path

450 yd

Path width

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Chilton County → Coosa County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 450 yards (0.26 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 tornado touched down just west of Interstate 65, south of exit 200 in Chilton County. It took at northeastward path through southeastern Chilton County before crossing into Coosa County. It continued on a weaker path through south central Coosa County, and then crossed US 231 south of Pentonville, where a grove of pine trees were snapped. It continued across Alabama Highway 9, north of Nixburg, where it snapped a few pine trees. The tornado continued to weaken and dissipated south of County Road 63 in rural Coosa County northeast of Nixburg.

The wider storm

On March 2, 2012, a strong cold front moved through Central Alabama. Severe thunderstorms developed along and ahead of this front. Some of these thunderstorms were supercells. These supercells produced damage across southern and eastern sections of the area. Damaging straight line winds, tornadoes, large hail and localized flooding occurred with this event.

Began near Wetona (32.7607, -86.3937).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Tallapoosa County 1 dead EF1 Lowndes County EF1 Perry County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 374294. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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