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EF0 tornado in Pike County, Alabama

Tornado April 14, 2019 · Pike County, Alabama

EF0

Rating

3.6 mi

Whole path

150 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 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

National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in southwest Pike County and determined that it was consistent with an EF0 tornado, with maximum sustained winds near 70 mph.

The tornado initially touched down north of County Road 6, several miles south of Goshen. It tracked north-northeast mainly over rural farmlands and open fields. Due to the lack of road access, the path width and length were estimated. Wind speeds were based on trees uprooted west of County Road 2243. The survey was prompted by a distinct TDS from the Fort Rucker WSR-88D.

The wider storm

A very potent storm system moved out of the Southern Plains States and into the Central Gulf Coast Region Saturday and into Sunday morning. This system produced widespread severe weather from Texas to Alabama, including numerous tornadoes. A line of severe storms moved into West Alabama shortly before midnight Saturday night and progressed eastward across all of Central Alabama. The line of storms produced pockets of damaging straight line winds, localized flooding, and several tornadoes.

Began near Henderson (31.6594, -86.1261).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Marion County EF1 Tuscaloosa County EF1 Etowah County EF1 Pike County EF0 Hale County EF0 Perry County EF0 Shelby County EF0 Shelby County EF0 Russell County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 821277. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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