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EF0 tornado in Lamar County, Alabama

Tornado August 31, 2017 · Lamar County, Alabama

EF0

Rating

31.2 mi

Whole path

150 yd

Path width

Injuries

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Pickens County → Lamar County → Fayette County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 150 yards (0.09 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 surveyed damage in extreme southeast Lamar County and determined that the damage was consistent with an EF0 tornado. This tornado moved out of Pickens County and across the extreme southeast tip of Lamar County. The tornado exited Lamar County near Junkins Road. Damage in Lamar County was limited mainly to uprooted pine trees.

The wider storm

The remnants of Hurricane Harvey tracked northeast across Louisiana and along the Mississippi River. Feeder bands on the east side of Harvey produced four tornadoes across central Alabama.

Began near Kennedy (33.5250, -87.9542).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Bibb County EF1 Bibb County EF0 Bibb County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 719421. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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