EF0 tornado in Montgomery County, Alabama

National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in southern Montgomery County, west of the town of Pine Level, and determined that it was consistent with an EF0 tornado, with maximum winds near 70 mph. Minor tree damage, consisting of primarily broken limbs, was observed from Smith Gamble Road to Woodley Road. A tornado debris signature was noted with this storm.

A strong upper level disturbance caused a wave of low pressure to form along a quasi-stationary front and move eastward along the Highway 80 and Interstate 85 corridors. This allowed a warm front to lift northward across the southeast portions of Central Alabama. North of the warm front, a line of showers with sporadic lightning strikes along an inverted trough was able to produce damaging winds despite a cool and stable air mass at the surface, knocking down numerous trees from Tuscaloosa County to Randolph County during the first part of the morning. A QLCS ahead of the cold front moved eastward later in the morning from Lowndes County to Barbour County, producing sporadic damaging winds. Additionally, bookend vortices and embedded supercell structures several weak tornadoes and one strong tornado.