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EF0 tornado in Crenshaw County, Alabama

Tornado December 25, 2012 · Crenshaw County, Alabama

EF0

Rating

0.1 mi

Path length

20 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 20 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 briefly touched down along Live Oak

Road in Patsburg. Near the intersection of Sims Road...a large

pine tree was snapped and car windows were blown out in two

vehicles. Metal roofing was peeled off a small vacant metal

building and a home sustained significant roof damage. Video

and eyewitness accounts confirm the brief touchdown.

The wider storm

A powerful storm system moved out of the plains on

Christmas, producing numerous strong storms across southeast

Mississippi, southwest Alabama, and the western Florida panhandle

out ahead of a strong cold front and accompanying squall line. Multiple

tornadoes, some long track, were observed along the central gulf coast

region.

Began near Patsburg (31.7928, -86.2309).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Mobile County EF2 Choctaw County EF2 Clarke County EF1 Mobile County EF1 Washington County EF1 Wilcox County EF0 Crenshaw County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 422498. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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