Tornadoes · United States · Alabama · 2022
EF0 tornado, Point Clear, Alabama, March 30, 2022
This EF0 tornado ran 0.6 miles across Baldwin County on March 30, 2022, touching down at 11:22 PM CDT and reaching 50 yards wide. It killed nobody.
The rating scale
Tracks are drawn in the color of the rating. The Enhanced Fujita scale rates the damage rather than measuring the wind: the speeds are what that damage is taken to imply.
EF065 to 85 mphthis tornado
Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.
EF186 to 110 mph
Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.
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.
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.
EF4166 to 200 mph
Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.
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.
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.
The record
- Rating
- EF0
- Date
- March 30, 2022
- Touchdown
- 11:22 PM CDT (04:22 UTC)
- Lifted
- 11:23 PM CDT (04:23 UTC)
- On the ground
- 1 minutes
- Path length
- 0.6 miles (0.9 km)
- Path width
- 50 yards (46 m)
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- County
- Baldwin County
- Touchdown point
- 30.467, -87.915
- Lift-off point
- 30.471, -87.907
- Record number
- 2203302222-01
The damage survey
11 damage points were recorded along this path by NWS MOB, in the Damage Assessment Toolkit the survey teams carry. The strongest indicator was rated EF1. The highest wind the damage implies is 100 mph.
- Numerous power poles snapped on both sides of road; fencing down; 18 wheeler trailer half rolled
- Minor roof damage of homes (some shingles gone); a few tree snaps; wooden fencing down; bent street sign and one knocked down
- Several trees snapped and uprooted; a couple power poles snapped by trees
- Several tree branches snapped, a couple tree trunks snapped
Survey points are preliminary and are the raw material the published rating was built from. Source: NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit.
What the Weather Service recorded
A very active severe weather season continued as an outbreak of severe thunderstorms occurred across the area from the evening of the 30th into the early morning hours on the 31st. A strong spring storm system moved across the area. Ahead of the system plenty of Gulf moisture returned to the central Gulf coast. This led to a very unstable atmosphere over the region which combined to strong wind shear to produce 18 tornadoes which were rated from EF-0 to EF-2. In addition to the tornadoes, the storms produced damaging straight line winds and large hail. Numerous reports of damage came in from southeast Mississippi, southwest Alabama and the western Florida panhandle.
A brief EF0 tornado began near Grass Road and tracked northeast, crossing Calloway|Drive. The tornado lifted by the time it reached Provencher Road just south of|County Road 32. The tornado produced sporadic pine tree damage along its path.
From NOAA NCEI's Storm Events Database, the narrative the local forecast office wrote for Storm Data.
The warnings
36 minutes of warning. NWS MOB issued a tornado warning for this county at 03:46 UTC, 36 minutes before the tornado touched down, in force until 04:30 UTC.
The county was under a tornado watch, issued at 23:39 UTC and running to 06:04 UTC.
| Issued (UTC) | Expired | Product | Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15:00 UTC | 23:00 UTC | High Surf Warning | MOB |
| 15:00 UTC | 00:00 UTC | Wind Advisory | MOB |
| 20:00 UTC | 10:28 UTC | Coastal Flood Advisory | MOB |
| 23:39 UTC | 06:04 UTC | Tornado Watch | MOB |
| 00:00 UTC | 04:42 UTC | High Wind Warning | MOB |
| 02:25 UTC | 03:30 UTC | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB |
| 02:48 UTC | 03:45 UTC | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB |
| 02:53 UTC | 03:45 UTC | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB |
| 03:36 UTC | 04:30 UTC | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB |
| 03:40 UTC | 04:30 UTC | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB |
| 03:46 UTC | 04:30 UTC | Tornado Warning | MOB |
| 03:49 UTC | 04:45 UTC | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB |
| 04:04 UTC | 04:24 UTC | Tornado Warning | MOB |
| 04:12 UTC | 05:00 UTC | Tornado Warning | MOB |
| 04:23 UTC | 05:30 UTC | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB |
| 04:26 UTC | 05:19 UTC | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB |
| 04:46 UTC | 05:30 UTC | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB |
| 04:53 UTC | 05:30 UTC | Tornado Warning | MOB |
| 05:16 UTC | 06:03 UTC | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB |
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 forecast that day
The Storm Prediction Center had this point in a Moderate Risk, with a 0.15 chance of a tornado within 25 miles, in the hatched area where significant tornadoes were expected. The outlook in force was issued at 00:57 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 radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 39 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 04:20 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.
What was reported nearby
Local storm reports within 60 km of the path, in the three hours either side.
| Time (UTC) | Report | Where | County | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03:34 UTC | TSTM WND DMG | 2 Ese Big Creek Lake | Mobile, AL | REPORTS OF TREES DOWN AND DAMAGED STRUCTURES NEAR THE WULFF ROAD S AND HOWELLS FERRY RD AREA. |
| 03:34 UTC | TSTM WND DMG | 2 Ese Big Creek Lake | Mobile, AL | REPORTS OF TREES DOWN AND DAMAGED STRUCTURES NEAR WULFF ROAD SOUTH AND HOWELLS FERRY ROAD. |
| 03:34 UTC | TORNADO | 2 Wsw Tanner Williams | Mobile, AL | A BRIEF TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN NEAR HARRY PIERCE ROAD AND MOVED NORTHEAST INTO ALABAMA AND LIFTED JUST EAST OF STATE LINE ROAD. THIS WAS MOSTLY DUE TO TREE DAMAGE AND SEEING A DEBRIS SIGNATURE ON RADAR. |
| 03:36 UTC | TSTM WND DMG | 2 Ese Big Creek Lake | Mobile, AL | REPORTS OF TREES DOWN AND DAMAGED STRUCTURES IN THE WULFF ROAD SOUTH/HOWELLS FERRY ROAD AREA. |
| 03:41 UTC | TORNADO | 2 Ese Big Creek Lake | Mobile, AL | A BRIEF TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN NEAR ELLEN DRIVE, RESULTING IN THE LOSS OF SOME SHINGLES ON A NEARBY HOME, A BLOWN OVER FENCE, AND METAL ROOFING FROM A SHED WHICH WAS TOSSED AND WRAPPED AROUND A STREET SIGN. THE WIDTH OF TH |
| 03:43 UTC | TORNADO | 2 Ene Snow And Tanner W | Mobile, AL | ANOTHER TORNADO BEGAN SOUTH OF HOWELLS FERRY ROAD, EAST OF HOWELLS LANE. A COUPLE TREES WERE SNAPPED IN THE RESIDENTIAL AREA, ALONG WITH FENCING DOWN AND THE ROOF OF AN AWNING THAT WAS BLOWN DOWN. A BASKETBALL HOOP WAS K |
| 03:45 UTC | TSTM WND DMG | 3 Sse Grand Bay | Mobile, AL | CORRECTS PREVIOUS TSTM WND DMG REPORT FROM 3 SSE GRAND BAY. NWS DAMAGE SURVEY FOUND A COUPLE SNAPPED LARGE BRANCHES WITH FEW SNAPPED OR UPROOTED SOFTWOOD TREES. A COUPLE OUT BUILDINGS WITH MOST OF THEIR ROOFS REMOVED AND |
| 03:49 UTC | TSTM WND DMG | 2 Nw Dixon Corner | Mobile, AL | SEVERAL LARGE SNAPPED HARDWOOD AND SOFTWOOD BRANCHES HERE. AN OUT BUILDING WAS DESTROYED AND AN ATV WAS ROLLED. WIND ESTIMATED TO BE 75 MPH AND TIME ESTIMATED BY RADAR. |
| 03:54 UTC | TSTM WND DMG | Tillmans Corner | Mobile, AL | NUMEROUS REPORTS OF DOWNED POWER LINES AND STRUCTURAL DAMAGE NEAR RANGELINE RD. |
| 03:57 UTC | MARINE TSTM WIND 43 | Brookley Field Asos | Mobile, AL | ASOS STATION KBFM MOBILE BROOKLEY REPORTED A THUNDERSTORM WIND GUST OF 43 MPH. |
| 03:58 UTC | TSTM WND DMG | 1 Wnw Hollingers Island | Mobile, AL | REPORTS RELAYED VIA SOCIAL MEDIA OF POWERLINES AND TREES DOWN NEAR HAMILTON BLVD AND RANGELINE RD IN THEODORE, AL. |
| 03:58 UTC | TSTM WND DMG | 1 Wnw Hollingers Island | Mobile, AL | REPORTS RELAYED VIA SOCIAL MEDIA OF TREES/POWER LINES DOWN NEAR HAMILTON BLVD AND RANGELINE RD IN THEODORE, AL. |
| 03:58 UTC | TORNADO | 2 Wnw Hollingers Island | Mobile, AL | NWS SURVEY TEAM FOUND AN EF1 TORNADO BEGAN NEAR RABBIT CREEK DR. IN THEODORE, AL AND MOVED NORTHEAST ACROSS RANGELINE ROAD. SEVERAL WOODEN POWER POLES WERE SNAPPED ALONG RANGLINE ROAD WITH ABOUT A HALF MILE SWATH OF STRA |
| 03:58 UTC | COASTAL FLOOD | 2 E Pinto Island | Baldwin, AL | U.S. 90 CAUSEWAY IS CLOSED IN BOTH DIRECTIONS DUE TO COASTAL FLOODING. |
| 04:03 UTC | MARINE TSTM WIND 48 | 1 Ne Hollingers Island | Mobile, AL | MESONET STATION - MOBILE DOG RIVER REPORTED A THUNDERSTORM WIND GUST OF 48 MPH. |
| 04:30 UTC | COASTAL FLOOD | 2 Ne Hollingers Island | Mobile, AL | WATER WAS REPORTED OVER DAUPHIN ISLAND PARKWAY (SR 163) AT DOG RIVER BRIDGE MAKING IT IMPASSABLE. ALL LANES WERE CLOSED. |
| 04:50 UTC | TORNADO | 4 Ene Rosinton | Baldwin, AL | A BRIEF, WEAK EF0 TORNADO WITH WINDS UPWARDS OF 75MPH OCCURRED IN BALDWIN COUNTY, ALABAMA JUST NORTHEAST OF ROSINTON 3/30/22. THE TORNADO BEGAN IN A LIMITED ACCESS AREA WHERE A COUPLE FRESHLY SNAPPED TOPS TO PINE TREES W |
| 04:55 UTC | MARINE TSTM WIND 55 | 2 Ne Gulf Shores | Baldwin, AL | AWOS STATION KJKA GULF SHORES REPORTED A THUNDERSTORM WIND GUST OF 55 MPH. |
From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service local storm reports.
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The other tornadoes of March 30, 2022
80 more were confirmed in the United States that day.
| Date | Time | Rating | Where | Path (mi) | Width (yd) | Deaths | Injuries | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 30 | 4:04 AM CDT | EF3 | Springdale tornado, AR | 5.2 | 350 | 7 | $20 million | |
| March 30 | 4:34 AM CDT | EF1 | Rockwall, TX | 0.5 | 50 | $500,000 | ||
| March 30 | 4:39 AM CDT | EF0 | Pittsburg, OK | 0.6 | 100 | $75,000 | ||
| March 30 | 6:25 AM CDT | EF1 | Red River, TX | 3.0 | 100 | $25,000 | ||
| March 30 | 7:47 AM CDT | EF1 | Johnson, AR | 3.5 | 400 | |||
| March 30 | 11:16 AM CDT | EF1 | Sabine, TX | 0.9 | 100 | $15,000 | ||
| March 30 | 11:41 AM CDT | EF1 | Newton, TX | 1.9 | 100 | $150,000 | ||
| March 30 | 11:53 AM CDT | EF0 | Natchitoches Parish, LA | 1.2 | 100 | $5,000 | ||
| March 30 | 11:53 AM CDT | EF0 | Natchitoches Parish, LA | 5.5 | 100 | |||
| March 30 | 12:05 PM CDT | EF1 | Natchitoches Parish, LA | 3.7 | 200 | $12,000 | ||
| March 30 | 12:20 PM CDT | EF1 | Bienville Parish, LA | 1.7 | 400 | |||
| March 30 | 12:22 PM CDT | EF0 | Natchitoches Parish, LA | 2.7 | 50 | |||
| March 30 | 12:28 PM CDT | EF1 | Jackson Parish, LA | 0.3 | 200 | $1,000 | ||
| March 30 | 12:37 PM CDT | EF1 | Vernon Parish, LA | 2.1 | 85 | $10,000 | ||
| March 30 | 12:42 PM CDT | EF1 | Jackson Parish, LA | 0.7 | 500 | |||
| March 30 | 12:44 PM CDT | EF1 | Jackson Parish, LA | 4.2 | 200 | $10,000 | ||
| March 30 | 1:53 PM CDT | EF1 | Richland Parish, LA | 7.4 | 1,000 | $50,000 | ||
| March 30 | 2:03 PM CDT | EF0 | Richland Parish, LA | 1.8 | 25 | $50,000 | ||
| March 30 | 2:10 PM CDT | EF1 | Franklin Parish, LA | 6.8 | 350 | $85,000 | ||
| March 30 | 2:51 PM CDT | EF2 | Madison Parish, LA to MS | 17.3 | 300 | $270,000 | ||
| March 30 | 3:19 PM CDT | EF1 | Bolivar, MS | 7.9 | 450 | $60,000 | ||
| March 30 | 3:31 PM CDT | EF1 | Bolivar, MS | 1.0 | 75 | 1 | $110,000 | |
| March 30 | 3:41 PM CDT | EF1 | Warren, MS | 6.0 | 100 | $20,000 | ||
| March 30 | 3:58 PM CDT | EF1 | Yazoo, MS | 16.6 | 700 | $110,000 | ||
| March 30 | 4:21 PM CDT | EF1 | Holmes, MS | 11.5 | 1,700 | 1 | $140,000 | |
| March 30 | 4:26 PM CDT | EF1 | Hinds, MS | 6.4 | 350 | $45,000 | ||
| March 30 | 4:37 PM CDT | EF1 | Panola, MS | 16.2 | 200 | 1 | $140,000 | |
| March 30 | 4:41 PM CDT | EF1 | Hinds, MS | 2.9 | 350 | $175,000 | ||
| March 30 | 4:43 PM CDT | EF1 | Hinds, MS | 8.5 | 200 | $280,000 | ||
| March 30 | 4:52 PM CDT | EF1 | Carroll, MS | 6.1 | 250 | $30,000 | ||
| March 30 | 4:56 PM CDT | EF1 | Madison, MS | 5.3 | 350 | $20,000 | ||
| March 30 | 5:23 PM CDT | EF0 | Franklin, IL | 4.0 | 100 | $62,000 | ||
| March 30 | 5:24 PM CDT | EF1 | Calhoun, MS | 7.6 | 100 | $60,000 | ||
| March 30 | 5:32 PM CDT | EF2 | Leake, MS | 10.7 | 1,200 | $850,000 | ||
| March 30 | 6:01 PM CDT | EF0 | Wayne, IL | 0.3 | 50 | $30,000 | ||
| March 30 | 6:11 PM CDT | EF1 | White, IL | 6.6 | 400 | $200,000 | ||
| March 30 | 6:12 PM CDT | EF1 | Tangipahoa Parish, LA | 6.4 | 150 | $250,000 | ||
| March 30 | 6:18 PM CDT | EF1 | Madison, TN | 8.5 | 175 | $500,000 | ||
| March 30 | 6:31 PM CDT | EF1 | Madison, TN | 7.1 | 250 | $300,000 | ||
| March 30 | 6:50 PM CDT | EF1 | Carroll, TN | 9.2 | 150 | $200,000 | ||
| March 30 | 6:59 PM CDT | EF1 | Vanderburgh, IN | 1.0 | 75 | $10,000 | ||
| March 30 | 7:16 PM CDT | EF0 | Monroe, MS | 7.7 | 150 | $50,000 | ||
| March 30 | 7:44 PM CDT | EF1 | Lamar, MS | 1.9 | 425 | $20,000 | ||
| March 30 | 7:44 PM CDT | EF0 | Lamar, MS | 7.3 | 25 | $35,000 | ||
| March 30 | 7:45 PM CDT | EF0 | Saint Tammany Parish, LA | 2.0 | 50 | |||
| March 30 | 8:01 PM CDT | EF0 | Clarke, MS | 2.1 | 125 | $35,000 | ||
| March 30 | 8:06 PM CDT | EF1 | Clarke, MS | 3.7 | 50 | $152,000 | ||
| March 30 | 8:08 PM CDT | EF2 | Noxubee, MS | 11.0 | 400 | 2 | $250,000 | |
| March 30 | 8:11 PM CDT | EF2 | Forrest, MS | 11.3 | 500 | $250,000 | ||
| March 30 | 8:24 PM CDT | EF1 | Lauderdale, MS | 6.8 | 200 | $50,000 | ||
| March 30 | 8:31 PM CDT | EF1 | Lauderdale, MS | 3.9 | 250 | $75,000 | ||
| March 30 | 8:43 PM CDT | EF1 | Wayne, MS | 0.5 | 50 | |||
| March 30 | 8:45 PM CDT | EF1 | Wayne, MS | 0.2 | 50 | |||
| March 30 | 8:46 PM CDT | EF2 | Perry, MS | 2.0 | 250 | |||
| March 30 | 8:47 PM CDT | EF1 | Wayne, MS | 1.9 | 30 | |||
| March 30 | 8:51 PM CDT | EF1 | Sumter, AL | 5.6 | 600 | |||
| March 30 | 8:55 PM CDT | EF1 | Wayne, MS | 0.3 | 50 | |||
| March 30 | 9:02 PM CDT | EF1 | Pickens, AL | 16.6 | 450 | |||
| March 30 | 9:10 PM CDT | EF1 | Greene, AL | 8.8 | 275 | |||
| March 30 | 9:12 PM CDT | EF2 | Choctaw, AL | 37.4 | 1,350 |
What this means
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.
Sources
NOAA Storm Prediction Center tornado database, 1950-2025, the official record kept by NOAA's Storm Prediction Center.