EF0 tornado, Prichard, Alabama, November 7, 2019

1. EF065 to 85 mphthis tornado

   Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.

2. EF186 to 110 mph

   Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.

3. EF2111 to 135 mph

   Considerable damage. Roofs torn off well-built houses, frame homes shifted on their foundations, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, cars lifted off the ground.

4. EF3136 to 165 mph

   Severe damage. Whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned, trees debarked, heavy cars lifted and thrown.

5. EF4166 to 200 mph

   Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.

6. EF5over 200 mph

   Incredible damage. Strong frame houses swept off their foundations, car-sized missiles thrown more than 100 meters, steel-reinforced concrete badly damaged, high-rise buildings deformed.

7. Unrated

   The survey recorded a tornado but could not put a number on it, most often because it crossed open country and damaged nothing a rating can be read from.

Rating

EF0

Date

November 7, 2019

Touchdown

1:35 PM CST (19:35 UTC)

Lifted

1:37 PM CST (19:37 UTC)

On the ground

2 minutes

Path length

0.4 miles (0.6 km)

Path width

25 yards (23 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

County

Mobile County

Touchdown point

30.725, -88.055

Lift-off point

30.726, -88.049

Record number

1911071335-01

3 damage points were recorded along this path by NWS MOB, in the Damage Assessment Toolkit the survey teams carry. The strongest indicator was rated EF0. The highest wind the damage implies is 50 mph.

• One power pole knocked over
• Evidence of inflow on south side of weak tornadic circulation

Survey points are preliminary and are the raw material the published rating was built from. Source: NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit.

Thunderstorms moved across the area during the day. One of the storms became severe and produced brief, weak tornado in Mobile County.

The storm survey team surveyed the areas around Telegraph Road and Industrial Canal Road based on public video of the tornado touchdown in the area. After surveying the area and speaking with people that witnessed the tornado, it was determined that the tornado was very weak and overall caused little damage. The primary damage noted was a snapped small tree on the banks of Three Mile Creek and a blown down power pole. Insulation from an industrial building was blown out, but the roof overall did not sustain appreciable damage. The start and end points are rough estimates based on the limited access of the area to the survey team. Based on video, the tornado likely moved across Threemile Creek and part of the Mobile River. It is possible the tornado|continued across US Highway 90 into Blakeley Island. However, the team could|not find any damage points to extend the track further east.

From NOAA NCEI's Storm Events Database, the narrative the local forecast office wrote for Storm Data.

No tornado warning for this county appears in the archive as in force at the moment the tornado touched down. One was issued for the county at another hour that day.

Every warning and watch covering the touchdown point that day, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service products. Lead time is measured from the issue of the warning in force to the touchdown time in the database, both of which were recorded to the minute by different people.

The Storm Prediction Center had this point in a General Thunderstorms Risk. The outlook in force was issued at 15:54 UTC.

SPC's Day 1 convective outlook as it stood when the tornado began, read at the touchdown point. The same archive is on the radar archive.

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 19 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 19:36 UTC.

Open the radar archive at this moment, over the track

Reflectivity and velocity, decoded from the Level II archive in the browser. Volumes take a few seconds to open the first time.

Local storm reports within 60 km of the path, in the three hours either side.

From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service local storm reports.

The live radar over the trackEvery 2019 tornado in AlabamaEvery tornado in Alabama since 1950Warnings in force in Alabama nowThe forecast where you are

Ratings are the survey's, read off the damage rather than measured; the rating scale is above. Tornado counts rise through the record as reporting improved, so a year in the 1950s is not comparable with one today except for the strongest tornadoes, which were always noticed.

NOAA Storm Prediction Center tornado database, 1950-2025, the official record kept by NOAA's Storm Prediction Center.