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EF0 tornado in Covington County, Alabama

Tornado April 23, 2020 · Covington County, Alabama

EF0

Rating

0.0 mi

Path length

25 yd

Path width

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NOAA recorded where this tornado touched down but not where it lifted, so it appears as a point. 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 grain bin was damaged by a brief EF-0 tornado.

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 Florala (31.0665, -86.2524).

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 885252. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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