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F0 tornado in Coffee County, Alabama

Tornado November 15, 2006 · Coffee County, Alabama

Rating

19.8 mi

Whole path

75 yd

Path width

$506K

Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 75 yards (0.04 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.

What the National Weather Service wrote

The same supercell which caused F1 damage northeast of Elba spun up another tornado just northwest of Roeton. The F0 tornado uprooted some trees before it crossed into Pike County, AL (See Storm Data for Alabama, Central, for more information).

The wider storm

A squall line affected the region on the 15th. Isolated supercell thunderstorms developed ahead of the line across southeast Alabama during the afternoon and produced several tornadoes.

Began near Roeton (31.6100, -85.8400).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F1 Henry County F0 Coffee County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 6082. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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