Tornado Reports
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| 21:53Z | EF0 | KGWX | MS | Tishomingo | Tishomingo Co Arpt | One home and two apartments suffered minor roof damage. In addition several large trees were uprooted and a fence was blown over. |
| 22:05Z | EF0 | KGWX | AL | Colbert | Newsom Spgs | A damage assessment team from University of Alabama-Huntsville observed damage associated with a tornado. The first area of damage was along Coondog Cemetery Rd. where a large pine tree was uprooted and fell south of due east and other trees losing branches around it. The tornado then crossed Coondog Cemetery Rd. moving into a region of extensive clear cutting and no open access. The next and more extensive damage area was along Mt. Mills Rd. Several large trees were uprooted in a ravine on the west side of Mt. Mills Rd., and more uprooted trees were found on a property on the southeast corner of Mt. Mills Rd. and Bald Knob Rd. The last damage was found on the east end of the property, with another tree uprooted and limbs down. |
| 22:10Z | EF1 | KGWX | AL | Franklin | Belgreen | A tornado touched down along Jacinto Road in the Belgreen community at EF-0 strength, with winds around 70 mph. A grove of softwood Cedar trees were snapped as the tornado crossed into a wooded area and moved east. The tornado further intensified as it approached Auburn Rd. There, a mobile home was sideswiped by the tornado. The roof and siding of the mobile home was partially damaged and the window was blown out. A very large pine tree was uprooted and a barn was completely destroyed. It was here that the tornado likely reached maximum strength of 90 to 100 mph. The tornado descended a steep bluff and crossed a narrow section of Cedar Creek Lake, snapping and uprooting numerous soft and hardwood trees. The tornado likely reached its greatest width at around 100 yards. On the opposite side of the lake, a covered boat slip was completely destroyed. Numerous trees were uprooted and snapped off. The siding and roof of three single family homes was damaged. The tornado weakened as it crossed Hwy 41. It knocked over another grove of cedars and caused EF-0 damage to the siding of a house. The tornado lifted in a heavily forested area along the far eastern edge of Cedar Creek Lake. |
| 22:21Z | EF1 | KGWX | AL | Franklin | Reedtown | The tornado touched down in the Reedtown section of Russellville with EF-0 intensity, containing winds of 65-70 mph. The tornado caused minor roof and siding damage to a few single family homes. The tornado strengthened quickly to low-end EF-1 as it knocked down the chimney of a house and caused more extensive damage to the siding and metal roof of another. The tornado likely reached maximum intensity and width as it crossed Hwy 43 on the south side of Russellville. Here, the tornado was around 200 yards wide, with winds of 90 mph. A Waffle House restaurant had damage to its sign and roof. A warehouse and apartment complex also sustained some minor structural damage. The tornado then moved through a residential section of southeast Russellville, causing significant damage to a grove of pine and cedar trees and completely destroyed a small barn. However, only minor damage occurred at any of the one to two story homes, placing winds in the 80-90 mph range. The tornado then weakened further as it approached Highway 42 east of Russellville and lifted near Sloss Lake Park. |
| 22:54Z | EF0 | KGWX | AL | Lawrence | Mt Hope | A tornado touched down on Spruell Farm on County Roads 35/36 in western Lawrence County. At this location, several small fertilizer containers were blown over, and one was blown for more than 1000 yards to the east-southeast. Further east in Mount Hope, trees were uprooted and branches snapped along County Road 23 between Mount Hope Baptist Church and Mount Hope School. Minor damage was noted to the bleachers at Mount Hope School as they were dragged a couple of feet from their original location. EF-0 damage was assessed at these locations with a maximum wind here of 80 mph. |
| 23:08Z | EF2 | KHTX | AL | Limestone | Fosters Mill | The tornado initially touched down just east of the Lauderdale-Limestone county line near the intersection of Union Hill Road and Shelton Road. Nearly all of the damage in northwest Limestone County consisted of snapped or uprooted trees, in a swath extending across Salem Minor Hill Road, Leggtown Road, and the Elk River. Significant tree damage was noted along Alabama Highway 127 and Veto Road north of Elkmont, where hundreds of trees were snapped or uprooted. It was in this area where the tornado reached its maximum path width of 350 yards. The tornado continued east-northeast, narrowly missing the Saturn I rocket at the Alabama Welcome Center on Interstate 65. Tree damage continued on Hardiman Lane east of I-65, but roof damage also occurred to single-family homes. Similar damage was observed on Puckett Lane and Oak Grove Road. There is evidence (both from radar and ground surveys) to suggest that the tornado had multiple vortices between Oak Grove Road and Valley Drive, as there are two distinct damage paths in this area. Again, much of the damage was to trees and roofs of single-family and manufactured homes, as well as small sheds and barns. The most severe damage by far occurred along Alabama Highway 251 and Gatlin Road, where one or two houses had their roofs and roofing structures almost completely torn off, and several more had most of their shingles torn off. Fortunately the residents had taken shelter in a nearby basement and none were injured. The tornado weakened quickly, snapping and uprooting trees as it moved across Mitchell Loop, Old Schoolhouse Road, and Alabama Highway 53. No evidence of damage was found east of Highway 53. |
| 23:18Z | EF1 | KGWX | AL | Lawrence | Wren | A tornado produced a cluster of damage near the intersection of Highway 36 and County Road 183. Farther east-southeast, trees were snapped and uprooted along the path near Speake School on Highway 36 just south of the intersection of County Road 81 and Highway 157. Due to the trees snapped at this location, the tornado was at its peak intensity, EF-1, with winds around 100 mph. The path width was approximately 50 yards. From there, the tornado lifted just southeast of Speake. |
| 23:29Z | EF1 | KHTX | AL | Morgan | Massey | A tornado produced widespread tree damage (snapped and uprooted) along the path from near the intersection of County Road 55 and Summerford Rd to Wilhite Rd (east of I 65 on the the Cullman/Morgan Co border). The only structural damage to note was a couple small farm structures and sheds that were heavily damaged or destroyed adjacent to Evergreen Rd, consistent with EF-1 damage. Damage indicators became more widely scattered as it approached I-65, but several trees were observed damaged along Wilhite Rd. |
| 23:30Z | EF1 | KHTX | AL | Jackson | Francisco | A tornado produced EF-1 damage near Highway 25 between mile markers 25 and 26. The primary damage indicators were trees on both sides of highway. The beginning of the tornado damage was observed on the west side of Hwy 25 on the downslope |of an east-facing ridge. An extensive area of downed trees was noted along the slope as it approached the valley. As the tornado tracked east-northeast back up a west-facing slope along Hwy 25, trees were uprooted across the road and a distinctive cyclonic circulation approximately 200 yd wide was observed. Due to inaccessible locations,|the damage assessment team approximated the touchdown near the mid-slope|of the ridge west of Hwy 25 and the lifting point on lower half of the slope on the east side of Hwy 25. |
| 23:48Z | EF0 | KHTX | AL | Cullman | North Vinemont | A tornado continued from Morgan into Cullman County crossing CR 1375 and CR 1442 and lifted just south of the East Fork of the Flint Creek. A few trees and branches were snapped along this path. |
| 23:48Z | EF0 | KHTX | AL | Cullman | North Vinemont | A tornado continued from Morgan into Cullman County crossing CR 1375 and CR 1442 and lifted just south of the East Fork of Flint Creek. A few trees and branches were snapped along this path. |
| 23:58Z | EF1 | KHTX | AL | Madison | New Sharon | The tornado began near the intersection of Will Holt Road and Bobo Section Road where several large trees were snapped and uprooted. Significant damage occurred just east of this location, on Delynn Drive, where multiple trees were uprooted, some of which fell onto nearby homes. Minor damage continued east along Larkin Sullivan Road and Hills Chapel Road.||The rear flank downdraft also produced damage south of the tornado path along Bob Section Road. These winds snapped and uprooted trees and damaged a few sheds and farm buildings.||The most notable tornado damage occurred upon reaching Highway 231, where the tornado hit a building supply yard and nearby houses. More than a quarter of the shingles were removed from a single family home and a nearby tree was twisted apart. At the building supply store, metal roofing and siding covering the supplies were |completely removed and the underlying wooden support structure broken. The metal roofing was strewn across the street and into a field. Security video footage confirms the presence of a circulation of a rain-wrapped tornado. The tornado caused further shingle damage and snapped more trees across the highway near Walls Road and Leigh Ann Road, but the damage appears to diminish quickly beyond this point. |
| 00:09Z | EF0 | KHTX | AL | Blount | Strawberry | National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in extreme northern Blount County and determined that the damage was consistent with an EF0 tornado, with maximum sustained winds near 80 mph. The tornado began on the west side of Highway 53/231, just south of Berry Road, in extreme northern Blount County. The tornado tracked toward the southeast, impacting four chicken houses on the east side of Highway 53/231, just north of Thomas Yates Road. Sections of metal roofing were blown off the buildings. As the tornado continued southeast, some small trees were snapped, along with large branches broken. The tornado lifted on the east side of Hopewell Road. |
| 00:26Z | EF2 | KHTX | AL | Marshall | Horton | The tornado began west of Old Oneota Road and Dixie Dale Road. Numerous trees were |either snapped or uprooted along and adjacent to Old Oneota Road, indicative of 90 mph. More significant damage was noted on the west side of Ole Oneota Road where two chicken houses and a barn were destroyed. The team determined winds to be 112 mph, or a low-end EF-2. A second set of chicken houses were destroyed near Oneota |Cutoff Rd, however these were not as heavily as damaged. As the tornado tracked due east toward Hwy 75 , the most prevalent damage was snapped or uprooted trees. On the west side of Highway 75, damage was noted to a weak farm building. Numerous snapped or uprooted trees were observed along White Oak Road and east toward Whitesville Road. Structural damage was recorded on Whitesville Road to a third set of chicken houses. The tornado was estimated to lift just east of Whitesville Road before Walnut Street. |
| 00:50Z | EF0 | KHTX | TN | Franklin | Decherd | Sporadic tree damage adjacent to the Hwy 50/64 connector (northwest of the Nissan Plant) was observed. A few trees near the intersection of Old Alto Hwy and Hwy 50 were slightly uprooted or had large branches knocked down. The assessment determined the damage was indicative of an EF-0 tornado with maximum winds of 75 mph. The tornado tracked east-northeast along/adjacent to Old Alto Hwy. Widely scattered large tree branch damage was observed through the Gum Creek area. |
| 00:50Z | EF0 | KBMX | AL | Blount | Champion | National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in extreme southeast Blount County and determined that the damage was consistent with an EF0 tornado, with maximum sustained winds near 80 mph. The tornado began just west of Jones Chapel Loop Road with minor tree damage. The tornado then moved east and crossed Daylily Road where dozens of trees were uprooted. The tornado then crossed County Road 24 and into St. Clair County. |
| 00:52Z | EF1 | KBMX | AL | St. Clair | Caldwell | National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in northern St. Clair County and determined that the damage was consistent with an EF1 tornado, with maximum sustained winds near 90 mph. This tornado began just west of the St. Clair/Blount County line near Jones Chapel Loop Road. The tornado crossed Blount Mountain along Walker Gap Road and crossed Crawford Cove Road near Highway 11. Trees in this area were mainly uprooted with only a few snapped off. The tornado continued eastbound and eventually lifted near the Interstate 59 rest area just south of the Ashville exit. The majority of the damage was due to trees falling on structures and power lines. |
| 01:02Z | EF2 | KBMX | AL | St. Clair | Greensport | National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in northern St. Clair County and determined that the damage was consistent with an EF2 tornado, with maximum sustained winds near 115 mph. The tornado touched down just northeast of Ashville along Highway 411. The tornado continued east northeast and uprooted and snapped numerous pine trees. The tornado intensified as it approached the Etowah County line where structural damage became evident. One house was moved off its foundation with a complete loss of roofing materials. Stands of trees were snapped off near their bases, including both hardwoods and softwoods. The tornado then crossed Neely Henry Lake and into Etowah County. |
| 01:12Z | EF2 | KBMX | AL | Etowah | Williams | National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in northern southern Etowah County and determined that the damage was consistent with an EF2 tornado, with maximum sustained winds near 120 mph. This tornado began in St. Clair County and crossed into Etowah County at Neely Henry Lake. The tornado crossed Highway 77 near Leota Road where numerous trees were either snapped off or uprooted and several structures were damaged by falling trees. The tornado continued east where it narrowed and further intensified as it approached Green Valley Road. The most intense damage was observed along Green Valley Road and Matt Smith Road where several homes suffered complete loss of roofing material and exterior walls. The tornado continued eastward several miles and weakened as it entered Calhoun County. |
| 01:20Z | EF1 | KHTX | AL | Cherokee | Moshat | National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in central Cherokee County and determined that the damage was consistent with an EF1 tornado, with maximum sustained winds near 90 mph. The short-lived tornado began near Highway 9 and the Cherokee County Country Club Golf Course. The tornado moved northeast along County Road 163. At the intersection of Highway 9 and County Road 163, a home sustained damage to the garage door and an adjacent pine tree was snapped. Just east of this location, at least ten pine trees were snapped along portions of the golf course. One half mile to the northeast, shingles were blown off several apartment buildings. Just north of the apartment complex, a farm outbuilding was completely destroyed and the metal panels were thrown 300 yards downstream across a field. The tornado dissipated shortly thereafter before it reached Highway 411. |
| 01:21Z | EF1 | KHTX | AL | Calhoun | Reads Mill | National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in northwest Calhoun County and determined that the damage was consistent with an EF1 tornado, with maximum sustained winds near 100 mph. This tornado began in eastern St. Clair County and crossed through all of Etowah County before entering Calhoun County. The tornado entered Calhoun County near the intersection of Harrell Gap Road and Gilbert's Ferry Road. The tornado continued east for about one mile where several trees were snapped and uprooted before dissipating near Oak Grove Road. |
| 01:23Z | EF3 | KBMX | AL | Calhoun | Reads Mill | National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in northern Calhoun Calhoun County and determined that the damage was consistent with an EF3 tornado, with maximum sustained winds near 150 mph. The tornado first touched down west of US Highway 431 north of town of Wellington, where it rapidly intensified and widened. It snapped and uprooted numerous trees along US Highway 431. Several homes were damaged by the falling trees. The tornado proceeded eastward across Websters Road and Broughton Road with scattered tree damage. As the tornado crossed Old Sulphur Springs Road, two homes were damaged with scores of trees snapped or uprooted. At Angel Station Road, the tornado filled the valley from one side to the other and caused extensive tree and home damage. An electrical transmission tower line was toppled at this point, but it was believed that flying debris compromised the structure. The tornado continued eastward and destroyed the sanctuary at West Point Baptist Church. Additional structures were severely damaged at the church. The tornado entered the City of Jacksonville where it gained strength into the EF3 category, with winds around 140 mph. It removed most of the roof and the top floor of two buildings in an apartment complex. The tornado affected the entire campus of Jacksonville State University. Several buildings sustained significant damage. The most intense winds remained north of the campus however, mowing down trees and causing direct damage to homes. As the tornado crossed Highway 21, it caused caused major damage to the Merrill Building. It then moved into a highly populated zone, where scores of homes suffered major damage and rendered uninhabitable. The tornado maintained its strength as it crossed Choccolocco Mountain, and winds funneled up the valley uprooting or snapping trees. It caused major damage to a number of homes on the mountainside. Damaged continued all the way up to just south of the peak of the mountain. As the tornado moved down the eastern side of Choccolocco Mountain, it narrowed substantially and became stronger once it reached the valley below. Stands of trees were wiped out with trunks snapped relatively close to ground level. Perhaps the most intense damage along the entire track occurred along Hollingsworth Road, where a site built home was completely destroyed with only a portion of one interior wall left standing. Debris from this home was blown downstream across a field with some evidence of wind rowing. Hay bales adjacent to the home, estimated at 800 pounds each, were thrown up to 300 yards to the east. Maximum winds at this location were estimated at 150 mph. The tornado continued east-southeast and downed thousands of trees in the Talladega National Forest and crossed into Cleburne County just south of County Road 534. |
| 01:50Z | EF1 | KFFC | AL | Cleburne | Oak Level | National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in northern Cleburne County and determined that the damage was consistent with an EF1 tornado, with maximum sustained winds near 100 mph. This tornado began in Calhoun County just west of Highway 431 and crossed into Cleburne County just south of County Road 534. The tornado continued east-southeast across a very rural portion of the county where it snapped or uprooted hundreds of softwood trees. The tornado crossed into the state of Georgia near County Road 57. |
| 02:07Z | EF0 | KBMX | AL | Calhoun | Weaver | National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in central Calhoun County and determined that it was consistent with an EF0 tornado, with maximum sustained winds near 65 mph. The tornado damage began in a wooded area just southwest of the intersection of Alexandria Road and Saks Road where minor timber damage was observed. Damage was largely confined to timber damage until it entered a residential area just north of Finks Lake. The tornado caused notable roof damage on the west and south sides of a home near the north edge of the lake while a residence immediately to the east suffered the loss of a few shingles. A softwood tree was uprooted to the west of the residence that suffered the most roof damage as well. The tornado continued further southeast across Finks Lake where a few softwood trees were uprooted on both the north and south sides of the lake. A small boat dock on the southeast side of the lake suffered peel back of a portion of its roof, and a camper was flipped over just off of Cane Creek Road. The camper did not appear to have an awning or canopy extended and other than having stabilizers deployed had no anchoring. The tornado continued southeast across Cane Creek Road where a softwood tree was uprooted and a horse trailer was blown onto its side in an open field further southeast. The tornado then lifted in this field. |
| 02:13Z | EF1 | KFFC | GA | Haralson | Hooper | A National Weather Service survey team found that the tornado that struck Jacksonville, AL moved into Georgia as an EF1 with a maximum wind speed of 95 mph and a maximum path width of 400 yards. The tornado entered Georgia northwest of Tallapoosa along Broad Street, snapping and uprooting trees along the road as it moved east for about a mile before ending on Edgar Little Circle between Broad Street and Womack Road. A large Oak tree fell on a home about 1/4 of a mile east of the state line resulting in extensive damage. No injuries were reported. [03/19/18: Tornado #1, County #1/1, EF-1, Haralson, 2018:005]. |
| 02:25Z | EF1 | KFFC | GA | Haralson | Buchanan | A National Weather Service survey team found that an EF1 tornado with maximum wind speeds of 90 mph and a maximum path width of 500 yards occurred on the west side of the city of Buchanan. The tornado touched down north of the New Vision Church of God cemetery and travelled south southeast snapping and uprooting small trees. The tornado intensified and grew in size as it crossed Highway 120 west of the Highway 27 Business Route, reaching its peak in intensity and width south of the highway along Tallapoosa Street. Several large trees were uprooted with one falling on and destroying a home on Tallapoosa Street, seriously injuring two people inside the home. The tornado continued a short distance to the south southeast before dissipating quickly between Jeffers Street and Macedonia Church Road west of Highway 27 Business Route. [03/19/18: Tornado #2, County #1/1, EF-1, Haralson, 2018:006]. |
| 03:11Z | EF2 | KFFC | GA | Fulton | Campbellton | A national Weather Service survey team found that an EF2 tornado with maximum wind speeds of 120 mph and a maximum path width of 315 yards touched down in the South Fulton community between Fairburn and Campbellton. Most of the damage was to two-story homes in the Chestnut Ridge subdivision. More than 50 homes sustained visible damage with at least half sustaining significant damage. The worst damage occurred along Jumpers Trace between Jodhpur Way Suffolk Lane. In this small area, numerous homes had large sections of their roofs removed along with large pieces of the exterior, upstairs, walls. Large trees along the northern and eastern edges of the neighborhood were snapped or uprooted. The tornado continued east for a short distance, ending after crossing Highway 92 just north of Jones Road, but not before it removed part of a roof on a house off of the highway and shingles from the roofs of several houses along Winstar Lane. No injuries were reported. [03/19/18: Tornado #3, County #1/1, EF-2, Fulton, 2018:007]. |
Storm reports are derived from "The Storm Events Database" (National Centers for Environmental Information) and/or "Past Storm Reports" (Storm Prediction Center).