Tornado Reports
Sort by Time Sort by Rating Sort by State Sort by County| Time | Rating | Radar | State | County | Location | Narrative |
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| 18:52Z | EF2 | KGWX | AL | Sumter | Cuba | National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in southwest Sumter County and determined that it was consistent with an EF2 tornado, with maximum winds near 120 mph. The tornado began on Jarman Road where some trees were snapped. It continued northeast and quickly reached its maximum intensity near Jemison Street and Campbell Street. At this location, numerous trees were uprooted and a home was shifted off its foundation with collapse of some of its walls. The tornado weakened by the time it crossed County Road 10, but continued to cause timber damage on Johnson Street and Siloam Road. Trees continued to be snapped and uprooted near the intersection of Highway 80 and Highway 17, with a 300 yard wide swath of downed trees reported by a landowner on Rumley Tower Road. The tornado dissipated after crossing County Road 13. |
| 19:38Z | EF0 | KBMX | AL | Greene | Tishabee | National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in southern Greene County and determined that it was consistent with an EF0 tornado, with maximum winds near 75 mph. The tornado touched down just south of Greene County Road 69 in the Charleston Swamp east of Tishabee and west of Riverwalk Road. The first damage produced was along County Road 69, and was limited to trees damaging homes. Mainly tree damage continued as the tornado tracked northeast and crossed Alabama Highway 43. The tornado continued northeast over inaccessible land between Highway 43 and the Black Warrior River. The tornado crossed into Hale County in the Mason Bend area of the Black Warrior River basin. |
| 19:52Z | EF2 | KBMX | AL | Hale | Sawyerville | National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in western Hale County and determined that it was consistent with an EF2 tornado, with maximum winds near 135 mph. The tornado crossed into Hale County from Greene County and intensified, uprooting and mowing down hundreds of trees as it moved along Bass Lane near the Black Warrior. The tornado then crossed Mason Bend Road where it snapped numerous hardwood and softwood trees, destroying several manufactured homes, and which resulted in a few minor injuries. One unoccupied single-wide manufactured home rolled over and landed upside-down on top of a car. From there it continued east-northeast, crossing Erie Road and County Road 92 with slightly less intense damage to trees. As it approached Alabama Highway 14, just north of Sawyerville, several homes were damaged, and one double-wide was destroyed, causing several injuries. The tornado turned over a fish truck causing the load of fish to be scattered across the road, and it deposited two pickup trucks into a nearby pond. The tornado continued east-northeast snapping and uprooting trees as it crossed County Road 17.||As it approached County Road 30, the tornado reached its maximum intensity of about 135 mph. A double-wide manufactured home was torn from its anchors, lofted and tossed approximately 50 yards across the road, resulting in one fatality and two serious injuries. A site-built home across the street sustained significant roof damage and broken glass. A double-wide manufactured home a few hundred yards south of the first home was split in two, with one half of the home remaining anchored while the other half rolled away. The tornado then crossed wooded land and pastures on either side of Big Brush Creek, before crossing County Road 21, snapping and uprooting numerous trees. Similar, but less consistent damage, continued as it crossed Raspberry and Hubbard Roads before moving over inaccessible woods and pastures along Five Mile Creek. The tornado continued to weaken as it crossed Highway 69 near Harper Hill, causing only sporadic tree damage. The tornado dissipated somewhere between Harper Hills Road and County Road 31. |
| 20:30Z | EF2 | KBMX | AL | Hale | Phipps | National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in northeast Hale County and determined that it was consistent with an EF2 tornado, with maximum winds near 120 mph. The tornado touched down in the Talladega National Forest along Forest Road 704, where minor tree and limb damage was noted. The path continued northeast, crossing County Road 49, where several trees were snapped, with shingle damage to a single family home and sheet metal was torn from the roof of a barn. The tornado continued northeast crossing Forest Road 718A and tracking along County Road 50, snapping and uprooting trees along its path. An extensive area of tree damage occurred just north of County Road 50, where hundreds of trees were either snapped or uprooted. The tornado then crossed into Bibb County about one-half mile north of Forest Road 731. |
| 20:36Z | EF2 | KBMX | AL | Bibb | Camp Hugh | National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in northwest Bibb County and determined that it was consistent with an EF2 tornado, with maximum winds near 125 mph. The tornado crossed into Bibb County from Hale County about one-half mile north of Forest Road 731. The tornado tracked northeast and snapped or uprooted several trees along a ridge line, just before it crossed over Forest Road 707. Widespread tree damage was noted along Forest Road 751, consistent with EF2 wind speeds. The tornado then turned northward and crossed into Tuscaloosa County about one-half mile east of Forest Road 721. |
| 20:39Z | EF0 | KBMX | AL | Tuscaloosa | Hagler | National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in southeast Tuscaloosa County and determined that it was consistent with an EF0 tornado, with maximum winds near 75 mph. The tornado crossed into Tuscaloosa County from Bibb County one-half mile east of Forest Road 721. The tornado tracked northward for a few miles and dissipated just along Lake Payne Road just north of the fork with Boneyard Road. Damage consisted mainly of broken tree branches. |
| 23:02Z | EF0 | KMXX | AL | Elmore | Holtville | National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in western Elmore County and determined that it was consistent with an EF0 tornado, with maximum winds near 80 mph. The tornado touched down just east of Todd where large branches and a pine tree were uprooted. The tornado continued northeast and crossed Jordon Lake Reservoir. A swath of uprooted and some snapped trees were observed along the north side of the lake northeastward to Possum Trot Road. The last area of damage occurred at the end of Marina Road along the Coosa River where a few metal carports were damaged and some trees were uprooted. |
| 23:33Z | EF0 | KMXX | AL | Elmore | Red Hill | National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in northeast Elmore County and determined that it was consistent with an EF0 tornado, with maximum winds near 70 mph. A brief tornado touched down near the intersection of Martin Dam Road and Griffin Hall Road. Several trees were uprooted and one home suffered damage from a fallen tree. Another home had some shingle loss. One outbuilding had metal paneling blown off and another had its roof lofted toward the south. A faint TDS was also noted on radar. |
Storm reports are derived from "The Storm Events Database" (National Centers for Environmental Information) and/or "Past Storm Reports" (Storm Prediction Center).