Tornadoes · United States · Alabama · 2024
EF1 tornado, Baldwin County, Alabama, June 1, 2024
This EF1 tornado ran 0.4 miles across Baldwin County on June 1, 2024, touching down at 3:17 AM CDT and reaching 150 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 mph
Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.
EF186 to 110 mphthis tornado
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
- EF1
- Date
- June 1, 2024
- Touchdown
- 3:17 AM CDT (08:17 UTC)
- Lifted
- 3:19 AM CDT (08:19 UTC)
- On the ground
- 2 minutes
- Path length
- 0.4 miles (0.6 km)
- Path width
- 150 yards (137 m)
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- County
- Baldwin County
- Touchdown point
- 30.526, -87.911
- Lift-off point
- 30.527, -87.905
- Record number
- 2406010217-01
The warnings
No tornado warning for this county appears in the archive as in force at the moment the tornado touched down.
| Issued (UTC) | Expired | Product | Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 05:49 UTC | 06:10 UTC | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB |
| 06:30 UTC | 19:21 UTC | Flood Watch | MOB |
| 08:08 UTC | 11:15 UTC | Flood Advisory | MOB |
| 08:22 UTC | 09:00 UTC | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB |
| 08:52 UTC | 13:00 UTC | Flood Advisory | MOB |
| 09:57 UTC | 15:00 UTC | Flood Advisory | 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 Marginal Risk. The outlook in force was issued at 05:36 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), 36 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 08:19 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 07:51 UTC | FLASH FLOOD | 1 Wnw Cochrane Bridge | Mobile, AL | Water over roadway at Paper Mill Rd near the Kimberly Clark plant. One vehicle stranded in flood water with driver on top of vehicle. Report relayed via Mobile Traffic on social media. |
| 08:24 UTC | TSTM WND GST 69 | Fairhope | Baldwin, AL | Measured by a personal weather station in Downtown Fairhope. |
| 09:06 UTC | FLASH FLOOD | 1 Wsw Downtown Mobile | Mobile, AL | Flooding at Government St and Scott St with a vehicle stranded in the flood waters. Flooding also reported on Broad St at St. Francis St. Report relayed via Mobile Traffic on social media. |
From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service local storm reports.
This ground now
The live radar over the trackEvery 2024 tornado in AlabamaEvery tornado in Alabama since 1950Warnings in force in Alabama nowThe forecast where you are
The other tornadoes of June 1, 2024
1 more were confirmed in the United States that day.
| Date | Time | Rating | Where | Path (mi) | Width (yd) | Deaths | Injuries | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1 | 5:06 PM CDT | Unrated | Pecos, TX | 1.5 | 50 |
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.