EF1 tornado in Mobile County, Alabama

The tornado touched down just east of the Alabama/Mississippi state

line and tracked eastward before quickly lifting after it crossed

Tom Gaston Road. The tornado first toppled an irrigation watering

system, and then passed through two private residential properties

where it destroyed a barn, along with numerous broken branches and

a few snapped trees. The most significant damage occurred shortly

after to a private industrial property where three silos and a barn

were destroyed, three empty semi trailers were tipped over, and one

door of a large metal building was blown in and the other blown out.

A powerful storm system swept across the southeast states through the day and into the evening on the 19th. Ahead of this system a warm front brought a very warm, moist and unstable air mass northward across the area. Numerous thunderstorms develop along and south of the warm front and became severe, producing wind damage tornadoes and large hail.