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EF1 tornado in Barbour County, Alabama

Tornado April 5, 2017 · Barbour County, Alabama

EF1
Rating
0.6 mi
Path length
440 yd
Path width
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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 EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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

This tornado began in extreme southeastern Barbour near Sandy Creek Drive and then crossed into Henry County, Alabama. The tornado continued northeast and crossed a small sliver of Barbour County before entering Clay County, Georgia.

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 (31.7706, -85.1428).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Barbour CountyEF1 Chambers CountyEF0 Cleburne County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 694598. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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