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EF0 tornado in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama

Tornado January 10, 2008 · Tuscaloosa County, Alabama

EF0

Rating

2.0 mi

Whole path

50 yd

Path width

$55K

Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 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

The tornado that previously touched down in eastern Pickens County moved into extreme western Tuscaloosa County, just north of Barefoot Springer Road. The tornado was on the ground for less than a minute in Tuscaloosa County, producing only minor tree damage.

The wider storm

A strong low pressure system and associated cold front caused numerous severe thunderstorms and isolated tornadoes across central Alabama.

Began near Echola (33.3235, -87.8393).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF3 Lowndes County EF3 Tuscaloosa County EF1 Barbour County EF0 Marengo County EF0 Pickens County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 77664. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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