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EF0 tornado in Barbour County, Alabama

Tornado February 17, 2008 · Barbour County, Alabama

EF0
Rating
0.4 mi
Path length
300 yd
Path width
$6K
Damage as recorded
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 300 yards (0.17 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

A weak tornado touched down briefly near Eubanks Road (also known as CR-12) where it destroyed a barn, tore shingles off a roof, uprooted a large pine tree and damaged a tin roof. It then tracked northeast along CR-79 a short distance, before lifting near the intersection of CR-79 and AL-18. Along the path several trees were uprooted or snapped and several road signs sustained minor damage.

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 Richards Xrds (31.7431, -85.2887).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF3 Autauga CountyEF2 Lowndes CountyEF2 Russell CountyEF2 Dallas CountyEF1 Randolph CountyEF1 Chilton CountyEF1 Pike CountyEF1 Coosa CountyEF1 Barbour CountyEF1 Barbour CountyEF0 Clay County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 85108. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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