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EF0 tornado in Dekalb County, Alabama

Tornado April 29, 2014 · Dekalb County, Alabama

EF0
Rating
8.7 mi
Whole path
75 yd
Path width

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 75 yards (0.04 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 small tornado touched down in the Aroney community in the southwest corner of DeKalb County. The tornado first touched down along County Road (CR) 479. Here, minor roof damage was noted to a single family home, and a farm building was also damaged. Minor damage was also noted to trees all along CR 479. Several small hardwood trees were snapped just north of CR 10, and other trees had the tops snapped off in this area. Another barn sustained minor roof damage further north along the road, and a home sustained very minor damage. The tornado eventually lifted just south of Highway 168 near the Kilpatrick Community.

The wider storm

A tornado outbreak occurred during the late afternoon and evening across the central Tennessee Valley on the 28th. Several cyclic supercells produced tornadoes, some of which were strong. Very heavy rainfall occurred in some areas as well. In particular, up to 5 inches fell in just a few hours which led to severe flash flooding in Valley Head.

An additional round of thunderstorms late in the day/evening of the 29th produced a few reports of damaging winds and hail.

Began near Arona (34.2243, -86.0781).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF3 Limestone County 2 deadEF3 Cullman CountyEF3 Dekalb CountyEF2 Dekalb CountyEF2 Dekalb CountyEF1 Franklin CountyEF1 Madison CountyEF1 Jackson CountyEF1 Dekalb CountyEF1 Dekalb County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 505653. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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