EF0 tornado in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama

Tornado March 25, 2021 · Tuscaloosa County, Alabama

EF0

Rating

11.1 mi

Whole path

375 yd

Path width

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Hale County → Tuscaloosa County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 375 yards (0.21 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

This tornado originated in Hale County. The tornado crossed into Tuscaloosa County near the intersection with Bibb County. It dissipated quickly with damage confined to uprooted trees.

The wider storm

A potent storm system affected Central Alabama on Thursday, March 25th. A highly-sheared environment combined with increasing instability produced numerous tornadic thunderstorms. Severe parameters were supportive of significant and long-track supercells, prompting the issuance of a rare High Risk Convective Outlook from the Storm Prediction Center for portions of Central Alabama.

A total of 10 tornado tracks were surveyed in Central Alabama. This included 4 EF3 tornadoes, 3 EF2 tornadoes, and 3 EF1 tornadoes. Damage was significant along the paths of the most intense tornadoes and, unfortunately, injuries and fatalities occurred.

Some storms were cyclic, meaning multiple tornadoes were produced by the same storm. The most impressive tornado of the event was the long-track tornado that traveled nearly 80 miles from Hale County to Shelby County. This ranked as the seventh longest single tornado track in the state of Alabama.

Began near Duncanville (33.0040, -87.4210).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF3 Calhoun County 6 dead EF3 Bibb County EF3 Hale County EF2 Marengo County EF2 Chilton County EF2 Clay County EF1 Pickens County EF1 Greene County EF1 Jefferson County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 946865. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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