Thunderstorm Wind — Cullman, Alabama

2015-07-14 · near Bethel, Cullman, Alabama

Event narrative

A tree was uprooted, falling onto a male, along County Road 1135.

Wider weather episode

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.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 597062. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.