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EF1 tornado in Crenshaw County, Alabama

Tornado March 18, 2021 · Crenshaw County, Alabama

EF1

Rating

0.5 mi

Path length

150 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 150 yards (0.09 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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

The tornado first touched down at the corner of Glenwood Road and Melvin Wallace Road where it snapped an area of trees. The tornado then continued northeast across Nelvin Wallace Road where to reached peak intensity snapping several pines, uprooting several oak trees and removing the roof of an out building. Eventually the tornado lifted just south of N Brunson Chapel Road but nor before snapping a few more pine trees.

The wider storm

A strong cold front moved through the southeast states, triggering a severe weather outbreak that produced several tornadoes along with numerous reports of large hail and damaging winds.

Began near Brantley (31.5920, -86.2435).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF2 Wayne County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 947198. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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