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EF0 tornado in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama

Tornado December 25, 2015 · Tuscaloosa County, Alabama

EF0
Rating
5.0 mi
Path length
185 yd
Path width
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 185 yards (0.11 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

NWS meteorologists determined a weak tornado touched down along Clements Road near Leeman Lane and continued northeast crossing Hagler Coaling Road, Wire Road and Dudley Road. The damage path was at its widest along Wire Road and Dudley Road. No damage was observed along Highway 11 farther to the northeast. The tornado is estimated to have lifted just northeast of Dudley Road, south of Upper Dudley Road. Only minor tree damage was observed along the path with approximately one dozen trees snapped or uprooted.

The wider storm

A low level boundary across southeast Alabama became the focus for heavy rainfall and severe weather during the early morning hours of December 24th. As the boundary lifted northward, the focus for heavy rainfall and severe weather shifted into north central Alabama.

Began near Coaling (33.1063, -87.3473).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Jefferson CountyEF0 Barbour CountyEF0 Barbour County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 613046. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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