EF1 tornado in Barbour County, Alabama
Tornado April 5, 2017 · Barbour County, Alabama
NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Barbour County → Henry County → Clay County, Georgia → Quitman County, Georgia; the totals above are for the whole tornado.
The path drawn at its surveyed width of 440 yards (0.25 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.
What the National Weather Service wrote
National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in far southeastern Barbour County and determined that the damage was consistent with a EF1 tornado, with maximum sustained winds near 105 mph. The tornado touched down near Sandy Creek Drive where several trees were snapped and uprooted. The tornado traveled northeast and across White Oak Creek where it entered Henry County Alabama.
The wider storm
April 5th was a very active severe weather day across central Alabama. During the pre-dawn hours, a warm lifted northward into south central Alabama. Supercells formed along the advancing warm front, producing numerous reports of large hail and a few reports of wind damage and isolated tornadoes. A second round of severe storms developed during the afternoon and evening as an upper level short wave trough approached the area from the west.
Began near Terese (31.7595, -85.1753).
Other tornadoes from the same storm system
3 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 694597. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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