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EF0 tornado in Marion County, Alabama

Tornado February 6, 2008 · Marion County, Alabama

EF0

Rating

7.3 mi

Whole path

50 yd

Path width

$70K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Lamar County → Marion 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 touched down in Lamar County moved into southern Marion County, near CR-16 northwest of Guin. It continued to move northeastward for about another mile and a half, and lifted just before it reached US-43 north of Guin. In Marion County, the tornado blew down several trees, at least one of which landed on and destroyed a barn.

The wider storm

A strong cold front and very intense upper level storm system moving across the Gulf Coast States brought numerous severe thunderstorms and several tornadoes to Central Alabama.

Began near Guin (33.9763, -87.9518).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Coosa County EF2 Fayette County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 83001. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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