EF1 tornado, Baldwin County, Alabama, June 18, 2026

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, as surveyed

EF1, preliminary

Date

June 18, 2026

Touchdown

7:18 PM CDT (00:18 UTC)

Lifted

7:21 PM CDT (00:21 UTC)

On the ground

3 minutes

Path length

1.4 miles (2.2 km)

Path width

100 yards (91 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

County

Baldwin County

Touchdown point

30.875, -87.866

Lift-off point

30.893, -87.856

Highest wind the damage implies

87 mph

Surveyed by

NWS MOB

The office's name for it

Carpenter

Survey last edited

August 4, 2026

Record number

None yet. SPC numbers 2026 in the spring of 2027.

A brief EF-0 tornado touched down just west of Highway 225 between Kilcrease Rd and Green Jordan Rd and lifted just east of Hwy 225. The tornado produced spotty tree damage. A couple of small pine trees were snapped with many other large limbs down. No structural damage was noted to the homes in the area. The damage also lined up in the exact location of the radar identified tornado debris signature.

Review of available satellite imagery revealed substantial changes to the overall track and strength of this tornado. The tornado began just west of State Highway 225 near Soloman Lane, tracking north-northeast across Highway 225 and Green Jordan Road. It was here the tornado caused low end EF1 tree damage. As it continued northward, it once again reached Highway 225 where it dissipated.

Written by NWS MOB in the NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit. A survey is revised as better evidence arrives.

42 damage points were recorded along this path by NWS MOB, in the Damage Assessment Toolkit the survey teams carry. The strongest indicator was rated EFU. The highest wind the damage implies is 90 mph.

• Tree damage visible at this location via Sentinel 2 satellite imagery.
• A couple of small pine trees snapped with lots of large limbs down. No structural damage. Damage location matches location of radar TDS.
• Well defined radar TDS at this location.
• Tree damage visible at this location via Sentinel 2 satellite imagery. Also starting location of radar TDS.

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

15 minutes of warning. NWS MOB issued a tornado warning for this county at 00:03 UTC, 15 minutes before the tornado touched down, in force until 00:30 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 19:58 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), 43 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 00:19 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.

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 2026 tornado in AlabamaEvery tornado in Alabama since 1950Warnings in force in Alabama nowThe forecast where you are

50 more have been surveyed in the United States that day, so far.

Ratings are the survey's, read off the damage rather than measured; the rating scale is above. A survey can be revised, so the rating, the path and the casualties can all still change.

NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit, the record the survey teams file from the damage, and NOAA Storm Prediction Center storm reports. Neither is the official database for 2026, which SPC publishes in the spring of 2027.