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EF0 tornado in Walker County, Alabama

Tornado May 10, 2008 · Walker County, Alabama

EF0

Rating

13.5 mi

Whole path

75 yd

Path width

$155K

Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 75 yards (0.04 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

The tornado touched down east of CR-77 near the intersection of Gravlee Junction Road and CR-15. The tornado then tracked northeast and entered Cullman County near the intersection of CR-17 and CR-19. The tornado appeared to have caused only minor tree damage in Walker County.

The wider storm

A strengthening low pressure system, and associated cold front, caused numerous severe thunderstorms and several tornadoes across Central Alabama.

Began near Dilworth (33.8750, -87.0631).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Marion County EF1 Cleburne County EF1 Cleburne County EF1 Walker County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 98760. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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