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EF0 tornado in Talladega County, Alabama

Tornado February 6, 2008 · Talladega County, Alabama

EF0

Rating

15.9 mi

Whole path

25 yd

Path width

$120K

Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 25 yards (0.01 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 Coosa County moved northeastward, and crossed into Talladega County just east of CR-61. It continued northeast for about 2 miles, crossed Lake Tate, and then lifted just beyond Lake Tate near Settlement Road. Damage was relatively minor, and consisted of one carport that was overturned, and several trees that were blown down.

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 Gantts Quarry (33.1039, -86.3053).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Fayette County EF1 Lamar County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 83010. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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