EF0 tornado in Colbert County, Alabama
Tornado November 6, 2018 · Colbert County, Alabama
The path drawn at its surveyed width of 75 yards (0.04 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
A tornado resulted in numerous trees being damaged in far southern Colbert County. The primary damage indicators were a combination of soft and hardwood trees. Much of the damaged trees had large branches snapped off with one tree fully uprooted south of the intersection of Cook Creek Road and Ligon Springs Road. Maximum wind, using an uprooted hardwood tree, was determined to be 76 mph.
The wider storm
A line of strong to severe thunderstorms moved east through across all of north Alabama during the late evening hours of the 5th and early morning hours of the 6th. Three tornadoes occurred in Colbert, Lauderdale and Jackson Counties. There were also a few other reports of damaging winds. In the Shoals, rainfall of 1-1.5 inches fell in an hour or less, producing multiple reports of brief flash flooding in Tuscumbia and Sheffield.
Began near Littleville (34.5717, -87.7332).
Other tornadoes from the same storm system
2 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 785079. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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