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EF0 tornado in Limestone County, Alabama

Tornado January 1, 2022 · Limestone County, Alabama

EF0

Rating

3.7 mi

Whole path

150 yd

Path width

$1K

Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 150 yards (0.09 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

A tornado touched down just west of County Line Road in Limestone County, where a couple of trees were uprooted. The tornado then moved east-northeast into Madison County.

The wider storm

An unusual severe weather event for this time of year, supercell thunderstorms developed during the afternoon into the early evening hours along and ahead of a cold front. These thunderstorms produced four tornadoes in north Alabama. Also, several thunderstorm wind damage reports were received. In addition, excessive rainfall led to some brief flash flooding in north central Alabama.

Began near New Hope (34.5748, -86.7943).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Limestone County EF0 Colbert County EF0 Madison County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 999643. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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