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EF0 tornado in Crenshaw County, Alabama

Tornado April 14, 2019 · Crenshaw County, Alabama

EF0

Rating

3.6 mi

Whole path

70 yd

Path width

$20K

Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 70 yards (0.04 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 formed west of Goshen, AL near the intersection of Jones Bridge Rd and Athen Church Rd where it uprooted trees and tore the roof off of a chicken barn. The tornado continued east causing damage to tree limbs before crossing N Goshen Rd into Pike County.

The wider storm

A line of severe thunderstorms moved across southwest during morning hours. These thunderstorms produced many reports of wind damage along with one tornado.

Began near Social Town (31.7073, -86.1688).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 818648. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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