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EF0 tornado in Tallapoosa County, Alabama

Tornado February 17, 2008 · Tallapoosa County, Alabama

EF0

Rating

15.3 mi

Whole path

100 yd

Path width

$115K

Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 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 in Coosa County moved into the northeastern portion of Tallapoosa County, between Goodwater and Hackneyville. It then continued to move northeast, crossing AL-63, before lifting just before the Tallapoosa and Clay County line. In Tallapoosa County, most of the damage was limited to broken limbs and snapped softwood trees.

The wider storm

A broken squall line, sparked by an advancing cold front and strong upper level storm, caused severe thunderstorms and tornadoes across Central Alabama.

Began near Hackneyville (33.0553, -86.0130).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF3 Autauga County EF2 Lowndes County EF2 Russell County EF2 Dallas County EF1 Randolph County EF1 Chilton County EF1 Pike County EF1 Barbour County EF1 Barbour County EF0 Barbour County EF0 Clay County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 85105. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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