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F0 tornado in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama

Tornado March 13, 2006 · Tuscaloosa County, Alabama

Rating

3.4 mi

Whole path

30 yd

Path width

$3K

Damage as recorded

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

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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 F0 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F0 meant light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken; the scale paired it with winds of 40–72 mph, figures later judged too high, especially toward the top of the scale, and revised downward in the Enhanced Fujita scale. Ratings then, as now, came from the damage.

The wider storm

Storm Spotters tracked a tornado on the ground from near County Road 35 in far northern Tuscaloosa County to near New Hope Road in far southeastern Fayette County. The tornado only broke a few limbs off of trees as it moved through the rural countryside. The total damage path was 3.4 miles long.

Began near Samantha (33.5167, -87.7333).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5497717. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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