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EF0 tornado in Greene County, Alabama

Tornado November 23, 2014 · Greene County, Alabama

EF0

Rating

2.0 mi

Path length

150 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 150 yards (0.09 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 began about 2.4 miles east-southeast of Forkland, just south of County Road 20 near the northern edge of catfish ponds, where a person observed the tornado. From there, it moved north-northeast and ended near Lloyd Chapel Church along County Road 41. Several softwood trees were either snapped or uprooted along the path where wind speeds reached 70 mph. Additionally, a small tornado debris signature was evident in dual-pol data from KBMX radar.

The wider storm

A band of convection moving northeast across south Alabama interacted with a surface warm front. The resultant shear and instability combined to produce rotating thunderstorms and weak tornadoes.

Began near Forkland (32.6387, -87.8364).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF1 Barbour County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 549950. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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