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EF0 tornado in Pike County, Alabama

Tornado April 14, 2019 · Pike County, Alabama

EF0
Rating
3.6 mi
Whole path
50 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 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

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

The tornado initially touched down just west of Jones Bridge Road in Crenshaw County.

The tornado crossed into Pike County just north of Greenville Avenue and lifted west of the town of Goshen. Damage in Pike County consisted mostly of uprooted trees and a gas station suffered minor damage.

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 Goshen (31.7186, -86.1473).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Marion CountyEF1 Tuscaloosa CountyEF1 Etowah CountyEF1 Pike CountyEF0 Hale CountyEF0 Perry CountyEF0 Shelby CountyEF0 Shelby CountyEF0 Russell County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 821278. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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