EF0 tornado in Etowah County, Alabama

National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in southern Etowah County and determined that it was consistent with an EF0 tornado, with maximum winds near 75 mph. A tornado touched down just southwest of the intersection of Lonesome Bend Road and Baldwin Street and produced minor roof damage at Glencoe Middle School. The tornado tracked northeast across Lonesome Bend Road, snapping a few trees and causing shingle damage along Stone Street. The tornado uprooted some softwood trees, peeled back the roof of a barn, and shifted a travel trailer just west of Pineview Avenue. After crossing Pineview Avenue, a small shed was destroyed and some minor roof damage was observed to a home before dissipating.

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.