Thunderstorm Wind, Mobile
- When
- April 30, 12:18 PM CST
- Where
- Mobile County
- Measured
- 53 kt (61 mph)
- Coordinates
- 30.680, -88.230
Tornado and Damaging Winds in Alabama, April 30, 1975
2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 3
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
Event by event
2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Escambia
- When
- April 30, 3:00 PM CST
- Where
- Escambia County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.3 mi
- Path width
- 20 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 31.030, -87.500
Thunderstorm Wind, Escambia
- When
- April 30, 3:00 PM CST
- Where
- Escambia County
- Measured
- 75 kt (86 mph)
- Coordinates
- 31.030, -87.500
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes and Hail in Louisiana, April 30, 1975
- Tornadoes and Hail in Arkansas, April 30, 1975
- Damaging Winds in Mississippi, April 30, 1975
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, April 30, 1975
- Tornadoes and Hail in Illinois, April 30, 1975
- Hail in Indiana, April 30, 1975
- Damaging Wind in Georgia, April 30, 1975
More
Every storm in Alabama in 1975Every state in 1975This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Alabama, 1975
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 9978375, 9978376, 9978377.