EF1 tornado, Pine Hill to Kimbrough, Alabama, April 6, 2025

1. EF065 to 85 mph

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

2. EF186 to 110 mphthis tornado

   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

EF1

Date

April 6, 2025

Touchdown

8:58 AM CDT (13:58 UTC)

Lifted

8:59 AM CDT (13:59 UTC)

On the ground

1 minutes

Path length

0.5 miles (0.8 km)

Path width

75 yards (69 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

County

Wilcox County

Touchdown point

31.981, -87.591

Lift-off point

31.981, -87.582

Record number

2504060758-01

15 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 110 mph.

• Several large softwood snaps with large hardwood branches. Clear convergent pattern in the woods. Minor damage to home shutters. With shingles ripped off the east side of a shed.
• Small vortex resulted in hardwood trunk snap with a handful of large hardwood branches snapped. Gas station awning tossed about 30 yards but was not attached to the station itself. Likely all lower bound and likely start of second circulation.
• Small restaurant building lost portions of its tin roof. Roof lost was on east side of the building showing signs of convergence. Few hardwood large branches snapped and a large single hardwood uprooted across the street. Building was older and thus went lower bound.
• Significant hardwood snaps with a single wide rolled. The single wide was on blocks on the side of the hill likely leading to the roll wit a lower bound estimate.

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

Thunderstorms developed during the morning and produced three weak tornadoes across southwest Alabama.

The tornado likely began near Godboldt Ave and Cedar Ave in Pine|Hill where a few trees were uprooted in a weakly convergent|pattern. The tornado then continued east towards county road|5 producing weak tree damage. The tornado quickly intensified and|reached peak intensity as it crossed highway 5 resulting in|several large softwood pines snapped and minor damage to a home.|The tornado then quickly crossed highway 5 where it quickly|dissipated.

The tornado began in the woods behind the intersection of Old Selma Rd and Highway 5 where it resulted in snaps of large hardwood limbs and some uprooted small trees. An unattached awning to a gas station was lofted and tossed about 50 yards into a tree. This awning was closer to a carport and thus damage was deemed on lower bound. The tornado continued across highway 5 resulting in roof damage to a restaurant and continued tree damage with uprooted and some snapped hardwood trees. The tornado continued across highway 10, producing tree damage. The most significant damage occurred as the tornado crossed Sandpit Rd. Numerous uprooted and snapped large hardwood and softwood trees occurred at this location. Some patches were rather significant snapping; however, just not enough to warrant a higher rating. A single wide manufactured home was rolled at this location; however, the home was not tied down and sitting on the side of the hill. As a result, a lower bound estimate was given for this damage. The tornado likely continued northeast into the woods where survey crews were unable to reach. After review of available Sentinel satellite imagery, the tornado track was determined to have continued northeast, likely lifting just prior to crossing the Southern Railroad east of Gwen Road. Additional adjustments may occur as more high-resolution satellite imagery becomes available.

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.

The county was under a tornado watch, issued at 07:53 UTC and running to 15:00 UTC.

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 Slight Risk, with a 0.05 chance of a tornado within 25 miles. The outlook in force was issued at 12:39 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 radiosonde launches on either side of the tornado, from the nearest station that was launching then, drawn and analyzed the way Storm Lab does: the same diagram, the same parcel and shear definitions SPC's mesoanalysis uses.

The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 153 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 13:58 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 2025 tornado in AlabamaEvery tornado in Alabama since 1950Warnings in force in Alabama nowThe forecast where you are

16 more were confirmed in the United States that day.

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.