Thunderstorm Wind — Lowndes, Alabama

2020-03-31 · near Ft Deposit, Lowndes, Alabama

Event narrative

Several trees uprooted and power lines downed in the town of Fort Deposit.

Wider weather episode

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.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 882694. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.