EF0 tornado, Madison County, Alabama, June 22, 2026

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, as surveyed

EF0, preliminary

Date

June 22, 2026

Touchdown

4:03 PM CDT (21:03 UTC)

Lifted

4:06 PM CDT (21:06 UTC)

On the ground

3 minutes

Path length

2.8 miles (4.4 km)

Path width

30 yards (27 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

County

Madison County

Touchdown point

34.892, -86.386

Lift-off point

34.916, -86.360

Highest wind the damage implies

80 mph

Surveyed by

NWS HUN

The office's name for it

New Market Satellite Tornado

Survey last edited

June 28, 2026

Record number

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

A small satellite tornado developed to the south of the New Market Tornado, with damage first noted along Hurricane Rd. at 4:03 PM. At this point, trunks of large hardwood trees were partially snapped. The satellite tornado then traveled cyclonically within the circulation of the New Market Tornado, crossing the southern end of Backbone Mountain. Shortly before the satellite tornado merged with the New Market Tornado, it produced sporadic hard and soft wood tree damage along Upper Hurricane Road.

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

40 damage points were recorded along this path by NWS HUN, in the Damage Assessment Toolkit the survey teams carry. The strongest indicator was rated EF1. The highest wind the damage implies is 107 mph.

• Estimated with here is 150 yards. Most trees in this location are 8 to 10 inches in diameter, with perhaps one or two that are a foot wide
• Tree 2 to 3 feet in diameter snapped close to the base
• Several large tree trunks snapped between 1 to 2 feet and diameter. Parts of a tin roof peeled up and spread out in a field.
• Several 1 foot diameter trees uprooted, and several large tree branches snapped.

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

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 19:57 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 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.

Huntsville/Madison County Exec (MDQ), 18 km from the path, in the two hours either side.

From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of airport observations.

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 27 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 21:04 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.

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20 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.