EF1 tornado in Barbour County, Alabama
Tornado November 23, 2014 · Barbour County, Alabama
NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Barbour County → Stewart County, Georgia; the totals above are for the whole tornado.
The path drawn at its surveyed width of 400 yards (0.23 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.
What the National Weather Service wrote
The tornado touched down in the extreme northeastern portion of Barbour County, near where Cowikee Creek empties into the Walter F. George Reservoir, or about 1.8 miles southeast of Lakepoint Resort State Park. From there, the tornado moved northeastward and crossed the reservoir into Georgia roughly due east of the State Park. The tornado then continued into Stewart County Georgia. Damage from this tornado was confined to hundreds of trees that were either snapped off or uprooted, where maximum winds reached 110 mph.
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 Eufaula Weedon Arpt (31.9603, -85.0940).
Other tornadoes from the same storm system
1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 549951. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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