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EF0 tornado in Crenshaw County, Alabama

Tornado April 3, 2017 · Crenshaw County, Alabama

EF0

Rating

0.1 mi

Path length

25 yd

Path width

$2K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 25 yards (0.01 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 brief EF-0 tornado developed on East 1st Street just north of Highway 10. The tornado uprooted a few trees and caused some minor shingle damage.

The wider storm

Thunderstorms developed ahead of a strong cold front and moved across the area. These storms produced high winds, large hail and a weak tornado.

Began near Luverne (31.7176, -86.2619).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 693484. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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