EF0 Tornado — Lowndes, Alabama

2017-10-07 · near Hayneville, Lowndes, Alabama

Event narrative

NWS meteorologists surveyed damage in central Lowndes County and determined that the damage was consistent with an EF0 tornado. The tornado began near a chicken farm along County Road 33 and moved northwest crossing Alabama Highway 21 where trees were snapped and uprooted. The tornado continued northwest crossing Foster Road. The end of the path had to be estimated as the tornado lifted in a swampy area north of Foster Road or just east of Mosses.

Wider weather episode

Nate strengthened into a Tropical Storm on the morning of Thursday, October 5th, just off the coast of Nicaragua. Nate moved inland across Nicaragua and Honduras through Friday morning October 6th. Nate then moved north-northwest over the warm waters of the northwestern Caribbean Sea, where it gradually intensified. Just after passing through the Yucatan Channel, Nate officially reached hurricane status during the early morning hours of Saturday, October 7th. Hurricane Nate raced toward the central Gulf Coast and made its first landfall near the mouth of the Mississippi River Saturday evening, October 7th. A second landfall near Biloxi, MS, came later that evening. Nate continued to accelerate northeastward and weaken as it crossed into west Alabama. Nate was downgraded to a Tropical Depression near Birmingham, AL, on the morning of Sunday, October 8th. Nate produced gusty winds of 30-50 mph which downed numerous trees and power lines across central Alabama, and several weak tornadoes formed on its feeder bands. As the remnants of Nate tracked towards the New England States, a nearly stationary surface trough over southeast Alabama resulted in localized flash flooding in Chambers County on Monday, October 9th.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 725214. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.