EF0 tornado in Lamar County, Alabama

National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in northern Lamar County and determined that it was consistent with an EF0 tornado, with maximum winds near 75 mph. The tornado touched down southwest of the town of Beaverton near Highway 77, about one-quarter of a mile north of Highway 278. The tornado tracked east across Highway 278 producing sporadic tree damage as it crossed Turkey Branch Road and Markham Road. A small barn was also damaged in this area. The tornado then crossed into far southwestern Marion County near Reese Road.

A line of storms with embedded supercells developed south of an outflow boundary ahead of a slow-moving cold front, producing damaging winds and several tornadoes across the northern portions of central Alabama during the evening hours on December 29th. The surface boundary shifted into the southern counties of central Alabama on December 30th. The low level shear was not favorable for tornadoes, but the storms were robust enough to produce damaging winds and large hail.