Alabama weekend tornado count could climb today
Alabama’s tornado count from weekend severe weather could climb today.
The National Weather Service offices in both Huntsville and Birmingham are doing storm surveys to see if damage in central and north Alabama was caused by tornadoes or straight-line winds.
So far four tornadoes, including an EF-2, have been confirmed by the weather service. Three injuries were blamed on the storms.
The weather service in Huntsville said it sent a survey team to an area near Rogersville in Lauderdale County today to look at damage.
Roofing drapes over a building from a storm at the intersection of Main and Fifth Streets in downtown Tuscumbia, Ala., Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025. Dan Busey/The TimesDaily via AP)AP
The weather service in Birmingham aimed to look at damage in Elmore, Tallapoosa, Macon and Montgomery counties and added that additional surveys may be needed later this week.
If a tornado track is confirmed then the weather service will give it a preliminary rating using the Enhanced Fujita Scale, which runs from EF-0 to EF-5.
Three of the four tornadoes confirmed in Alabama were EF-1s with winds near or over 100 mph. The EF-2 twister, which hit Franklin County, had winds estimated at 115 mph.
- Waco Tornado (Franklin County): EF-2, top winds 115 mph. One injury. Path length 3.93 miles. Touched down at 11:20 p.m. Saturday.
- Tuscumbia Tornado (Colbert County): EF-1, top winds 105 mph. Path length 2.01 miles. Touched down at 11:12 p.m. Saturday.
- Mount Hebron Tornado (Marshall County): EF-1, top winds 100 mph. Path length 0.76 miles. Touched down at 1:05 a.m. Sunday.
- County Road 10 Tornado (Hale and Perry counties): EF-1, top winds 95 mph. Path length 18.37 miles. Two injuries. Touched down at 12:52 a.m. Sunday.
The weather service said updates on the survey team’s progress will be released later today.
TORNADO FROM FEB. 12
On a side note, the National Weather Service in Mobile has also confirmed a tornado from storms on Feb. 12.
That newly confirmed tornado was an EF-2 with top winds of 115 mph. It touched down in Washington County just south of Coffeeville and tracked into Clarke County. It had a path length of almost 10 miles.
See more on that tornado here.