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PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
352 PM CST THU FEB 20 2025
..NWS DAMAGE SURVEY FOR 02/16/25 TORNADO EVENT UPDATE #6
UPDATE
AN ADDITIONAL EF-0 TORNADO WAS CONFIRMED IN MOUNDVILLE
IN HALE COUNTY, BRINGING THE EVENT TOTAL TO FIVE TORNADOES.
OVERVIEW
A FAST-MOVING SQUALL LINE MOVED THROUGH CENTRAL
ALABAMA LATE SATURDAY NIGHT AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT. VERY STRONG
WIND FIELDS WITH THE SYSTEM RESULTED IN WIDESPREAD DAMAGING
STRAIGHT LINE WINDS ACROSS CENTRAL ALABAMA, AND ALL OF CENTRAL
ALABAMA WAS UNDER AT LEAST A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING AT SOME
POINT DURING THE EVENT. MEASURED WIND GUSTS WERE AS HIGH AS 70 MPH
AT THE MONTGOMERY REGIONAL AIRPORT. FIVE TORNADOES WERE
CONFIRMED WITHIN THE SQUALL LINE.
MOUNDVILLE TORNADO
RATING: EF0
ESTIMATED PEAK WIND: 75 MPH
PATH LENGTH /STATUTE/: 1.62 MILES
PATH WIDTH /MAXIMUM/: 150 YARDS
FATALITIES: 0
INJURIES: 0
START DATE: 02/16/2025
START TIME: 12:33 AM CST
START LOCATION: 1 WSW MOUNDVILLE / HALE COUNTY / AL
START LAT/LON: 32.9881 / -87.6541
END DATE: 02/16/2025
END TIME: 12:36 AM CST
END LOCATION: MOUNDVILLE / HALE COUNTY / AL
END LAT/LON: 32.9912 / -87.6265
SURVEY SUMMARY:
A NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DAMAGE SURVEY IN MOUNDVILLE REVEALED
AN EF-0 TORNADO THAT OCCURRED EARLY ON FEBRUARY 16. THE TORNADO
BEGAN IN A WOODED AREA NEAR GREEN RIDGE RD AND MOVED EAST-
NORTHEASTWARD. ALONG POWER LOOP RD, SEVERAL PINE TREES HAD TOPS
SNAPPED OFF AND LARGE LIMBS BROKEN. A FEW OTHER PINES WERE
UPROOTED NEAR A RESIDENCE, AND A BARN SUSTAINED ROOF DAMAGE. A
LARGE TREE FELL ON THE BACKSIDE OF A HOUSE AT 2ND AVE AND MAPLE
LEAF LANE, CAUSING SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE. BETWEEN MAPLE LEAF LANE
AND JAMESTOWN CIRCLE, SEVERAL TREE LIMBS WERE SNAPPED AND A
TRAMPOLINE WAS FLIPPED. TREE DAMAGE CONTINUED THROUGH ANOTHER
WOODED AREA TO JUST WEST OF THE HALE COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL
FIELD, WHERE THE PATH APPEARED TO END JUST WEST OF HIGHWAY 69.
COUNTY RD 10 EF-1 TORNADO
RATING: EF1
ESTIMATED PEAK WIND: 95 MPH
PATH LENGTH /STATUTE/: 18.37 MILES
PATH WIDTH /MAXIMUM/: 200 YARDS
FATALITIES: 0
INJURIES: 2
START DATE: 02/16/2025
START TIME: 12:52 AM CST
START LOCATION: 4 S CEDARVILLE / HALE COUNTY / AL
START LAT/LON: 32.5582 / -87.6852
END DATE: 02/16/2025
END TIME: 01:10 AM CST
END LOCATION: 4 SW MARION / PERRY COUNTY / AL
END LAT/LON: 32.5918 / -87.3753
SURVEY SUMMARY:
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS SURVEYED DAMAGE IN
SOUTHERN HALE AND PERRY COUNTIES AND DETERMINED THAT THE DAMAGE
WAS CONSISTENT WITH A TORNADO. THE START OF THE TORNADO WAS
ESTIMATED TO BE JUST WEST OF ALABAMA HIGHWAY 69, WHERE TREE
DAMAGE WAS OBSERVED IN AN INACCESSIBLE AREA. THE TORNADO
CONTINUED EASTWARD, MOVING PARALLEL TO COUNTY ROAD 10. ALONG THE
ROADWAY, NUMEROUS TREES WERE SNAPPED OR UPROOTED, ALONG WITH AT
LEAST 40 TO 50 POWER POLES SNAPPED. A SITE BUILT HOME SUSTAINED
ROOF DAMAGE ALONG WITH FARM OUTBUILDINGS THAT SUSTAINED
SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE. THE TORNADO GAINED STRENGTH AS IT MOVED EAST
OF ALABAMA HIGHWAY 25, WHERE EF-1 DAMAGE OCCURRED. MULTIPLE
MANUFACTURED HOMES WERE SEVERELY DAMAGED DUE TO LARGE TREES
FALLING ON TOP OF THEM, WHILE ANOTHER MANUFACTURED HOME WAS
DESTROYED DUE TO TORNADIC WIND GUSTS ESTIMATED AROUND 95MPH.
RESIDENTS WHO WERE INSIDE THE HOMES RECEIVED THE TORNADO WARNING
ON THEIR MOBILE PHONES, AND WERE ABLE TO QUICKLY TAKE AS MUCH
SHELTER AS THEY COULD. A MOTHER AND HER TWO KIDS IN ONE HOME TOOK
SHELTER IN THEIR BATHTUB, WHICH ENDED UP BEING THE ONLY ROOM IN
THE HOME THAT DID NOT SUSTAIN MAJOR DAMAGE. 2 INJURIES OCCURRED
WHERE THE HOMES WERE DAMAGED, AND THE MAXIMUM WIDTH WAS ESTIMATED
TO BE 200 YARDS AT THIS LOCATION. THE TORNADO CONTINUED EASTWARD
AND CROSSED ALABAMA HIGHWAY 61 INTO PERRY COUNTY. MINOR TREE
DAMAGE WAS NOTED ALONG JENKINS BRYANT RD, AND FARM OUTBUILDINGS
SUSTAINED MAJOR DAMAGE ALONG PERRY COUNTY RD 23. THE TORNADO
LIFTED ALONG LAKELAND FARM RD, AND NO FURTHER DAMAGE WAS NOTED TO
THE EAST.
WEOGUFKA TORNADO
RATING: EF0
ESTIMATED PEAK WIND: 80 MPH
PATH LENGTH /STATUTE/: 12.20 MILES
PATH WIDTH /MAXIMUM/: 250 YARDS
FATALITIES: 0
INJURIES: 0
START DATE: 02/16/2025
START TIME: 02:00 AM CST
START LOCATION: 1 N UNITY / COOSA COUNTY / AL
START LAT/LON: 33.0251 / -86.3541
END DATE: 02/16/2025
END TIME: 02:12 AM CST
END LOCATION: 3 SW PARKDALE / COOSA COUNTY / AL
END LAT/LON: 33.0701 / -86.1518
SURVEY SUMMARY:
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SURVEYED IN NORTHERN COOSA COUNTY
AND DETERMINED THE DAMAGE TO BE CONSISTENT WITH AN EF-0 TORNADO.
THE TORNADO INITIALLY TOUCHED DOWN ALONG COUNTY ROAD 55, WHERE A
FEW SOFTWOOD TREES WERE DOWNED. THE TORNADO CAUSED SIGNIFICANT
TREE DAMAGE ACROSS A WOODED AREA EAST OF CR 55, WITH MANY
UPROOTED TREES. ALONG PRATER RD, SEVERAL SOFTWOOD TREES SUSTAINED
MINOR DAMAGE. FROM THERE, THE TORNADO TRACKED EAST-NORTHEAST
CROSSING COUNTY ROAD 29, JUST NORTH OF THE WEOGUFKA FAMILY
WORSHIP CENTER. HERE, SEVERAL SOFTWOOD TREES WERE UPROOTED ALONG
WITH SEVERAL HOMES THAT RECEIVED MINOR DAMAGE. THE TORNADO
CONTINUED CROSSING COUNTY ROAD 41 WHERE ADDITIONAL TREES WERE
UPROOTED AND POWER LINES WERE DAMAGED DUE TO THE TREE FALL. THE
TORNADO THEN CROSSED HWY 231 AND 280, WHERE SOFTWOOD TREES WERE
BOTH UPROOTED AND SNAPPED, AND SOME ADDITIONAL TIN SHED DAMAGE
WAS NOTED.
BARNESVILLE LOOP
RATING: EF1
ESTIMATED PEAK WIND: 90 MPH
PATH LENGTH /STATUTE/: 0.68 MILES
PATH WIDTH /MAXIMUM/: 150 YARDS
FATALITIES: 0
INJURIES: 0
START DATE: 02/16/2025
START TIME: 02:42 AM CST
START LOCATION: 3 S STILL WATERS RESORT / TALLAPOOSA COUNTY / AL
START LAT/LON: 32.6989 / -85.8351
END DATE: 02/16/2025
END TIME: 02:43 AM CST
END LOCATION: 3 S STILL WATERS RESORT / TALLAPOOSA COUNTY / AL
END LAT/LON: 32.6974 / -85.8235
SURVEY SUMMARY:
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS SURVEYED DAMAGE IN
SOUTHERN TALLAPOOSA COUNTY AND DETERMINED THAT A BRIEF EF-
1 TORNADO OCCURRED WITHIN AN AREA OF STRAIGHT LINE WIND DAMAGE.
DAMAGE CONSISTED OF MULTIPLE SNAPPED AND UPROOTED TREES ALONG
BARNESVILLE LOOP JUST SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 50. A TDS WAS ALSO
OBSERVED ON KMXX RADAR.
BARGANIER ROAD
RATING: EF1
ESTIMATED PEAK WIND: 110 MPH
PATH LENGTH /STATUTE/: 7.52 MILES
PATH WIDTH /MAXIMUM/: 450 YARDS
FATALITIES: 0
INJURIES: 0
START DATE: 02/16/2025
START TIME: 02:47 AM CST
START LOCATION: 4 NNE CECIL / MACON COUNTY / AL
START LAT/LON: 32.3484 / -85.9745
END DATE: 02/16/2025
END TIME: 02:54 AM CST
END LOCATION: 3 NE CROSS KEYS / MACON COUNTY / AL
END LAT/LON: 32.3552 / -85.8473
SURVEY SUMMARY:
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS SURVEYED DAMAGE IN MACON
COUNTY AND DETERMINED THAT AN EF-1 TORNADO OCCURRED TO THE NORTH
OF STRAIGHT LINE WIND DAMAGE WITHIN A BOWING SEGMENT. THE TORNADO
BEGAN JUST EAST OF THE MACON/MONTGOMERY COUNTY LINE, WHERE A
COUPLE PINES WERE SNAPPED ALONG BARGANIER ROAD. IT CONTINUED
MOVING EASTWARD, REACHING ITS PEAK INTENSITY ALONG COUNTY ROAD
2 AND KEYS COURT WHERE NUMEROUS HARDWOODS WERE SNAPPED AND
UPROOTED A COUPLE HUNDRED YARDS SOUTH OF THE ROAD. SEVERAL HOMES
AND OUTBUILDINGS SUFFERED ROOF DAMAGE AS IT PARALLELED COUNTY
ROAD 20, BEFORE THE TORNADO DISSIPATED AS IT CROSSED COUNTY ROAD
13.
EF SCALE: THE ENHANCED FUJITA SCALE CLASSIFIES TORNADOES INTO THE
FOLLOWING CATEGORIES:
EF0.....65 TO 85 MPH
EF1.....86 TO 110 MPH
EF2.....111 TO 135 MPH
EF3.....136 TO 165 MPH
EF4.....166 TO 200 MPH
EF5.....>200 MPH
NOTE:
THE INFORMATION IN THIS STATEMENT IS PRELIMINARY AND SUBJECT TO
CHANGE PENDING FINAL REVIEW OF THE EVENTS AND PUBLICATION IN
NWS STORM DATA.
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