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EF0 tornado in Covington County, Alabama

Tornado April 23, 2020 · Covington County, Alabama

EF0

Rating

0.4 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 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 brief tornado touchdown occurred along an approximately

one half of a mile track. There were several trees snapped and uprooted with

a weak convergence damage pattern noted. This short track was just west of

Bogganlevel road and ended at the roadway.

The wider storm

A strong spring storm system moved across southern states. High values of wind shear and instability combined to generate numerous severe thunderstorms that produced tornadoes and wind damage.

Began near Falco (31.0630, -86.5700).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Mobile County EF0 Covington County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 885251. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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