EF0 tornado in Cullman County, Alabama

Tornado July 14, 2015 · Cullman County, Alabama

EF0

Rating

4.9 mi

Whole path

300 yd

Path width

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 300 yards (0.17 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 tornado continued its path from Morgan County into Cullman County at Eva Road at County Road 1459 where a tree was snapped at its trunk and where a home lost considerable amounts of siding on the west facing side.

The wider storm

A quasi-linear convective system (QLCS) dropped southward into the Tennessee Valley during the afternoon and evening hours. The airmass was very unstable, and despite low to moderate low to mid level wind shear, multiple swaths of damaging winds occurred. Within these pockets of winds, a few weak and mostly short-lived tornadoes developed. The most concentrated wind and tornado damage occurred in portions of Lauderdale, Colbert, and Lawrence Counties including the Shoals region of Florence, Sheffield, Muscle Shoals, Town Creek and Courtland. Other short-lived tornadoes occurred in Madison, Morgan and Cullman Counties. Unfortunately, one person was killed by a falling tree near West Point in Cullman County.

Began near Enon (34.3073, -86.7771).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Lawrence County EF1 Colbert County EF0 Morgan County EF0 Colbert County EF0 Madison County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 593973. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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