EF0 tornado in Perry County, Alabama

Tornado May 4, 2021 · Perry County, Alabama

EF0

Rating

24.8 mi

Whole path

570 yd

Path width

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 570 yards (0.32 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

National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in northeast Perry County and determined that it was consistent with an EF0 tornado, with maximum winds near 80 mph. The tornado was embedded within a fast moving QLCS and touched down along J Mitchell Road in the Talladega National Forest. It traveled east-northeastward through the National Forest and crossed into Chilton County near Jim Foundry Road. Damage consisted mainly of snapped and uprooted trees.

The wider storm

A multi-day severe weather event unfolded across Central Alabama from May 2nd through May 4th. Alabama remained on the eastern side of a broad upper trough positioned over the Plains States. Several upper level impulses emanated from the trough axis and produced severe weather across Alabama. The main severe weather event occurred on May 4th when a QLCS tracked eastward across areas along and east of I-20 and produced widespread wind damage, flash flooding, and tornadoes.

Began near Levert (32.7381, -87.2159).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Autauga County EF0 Greene County EF0 Macon County EFU Tuscaloosa County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 957984. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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