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Tornado in Coffee County, Alabama

Tornado October 16, 1955 · Coffee County, Alabama

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Not rated

31.7 mi

Whole path

167 yd

Path width

Injuries

$5.0M

Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 167 yards (0.09 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

Not rated. NOAA lists no rating for this tornado. Ratings come from surveying damage, and the National Weather Service now records “EFU” (unknown) when a tornado hit nothing a survey team could rate.

NOAA’s online database has no written narrative for tornadoes before 1996 — just the numbers above, transcribed from the original storm logs. (NOAA’s monthly Storm Data publications, which carry written accounts, begin in 1959.)

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 9976782. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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