EF0 tornado, Georgetown to Hatters, Alabama, March 11, 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

March 11, 2026

Touchdown

12:07 AM CDT (05:07 UTC)

Lifted

12:08 AM CDT (05:08 UTC)

On the ground

1 minutes

Path length

0.5 miles (0.8 km)

Path width

100 yards (91 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

County

Mobile County

Touchdown point

30.952, -88.114

Lift-off point

30.957, -88.108

Highest wind the damage implies

85 mph

Surveyed by

NWS MOB

The office's name for it

Turnerville

Survey last edited

April 6, 2026

Record number

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

Available high resolution satellite imagery revealed a brief EF0 tornado occurred in the Turnerville area, tracking across Dixie Road and Salco Road. The tornado caused mainly minor tree damage along its track, reaching a peak width just across Salco Road around 100 yards wide.

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

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 90 mph.

• Likely endpoint for northern tor that merged into southern tor track
• Minor tree damage visible via satellite imagery at this location.
• Tree damage visible at this location via high resolution satellite imagery.
• Minor tree damage visible at this location via high resolution satellite imagery.

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

A strong cold front moved across the area with a line of showers and thunderstorms. The storms produced several tornadoes and gusty winds across southwest Alabama.

The EF-0 tornado began along Mason Ferry Rd west of Georgetown|Alabama where it resulted in a few large branches snapped. The|tornado continued through the forest on the north side of Mason|Ferry rd before reaching McDavid rd where large branches and a|large softwood tree was uprooted in a clear convergent pattern.|This is likely where the tornado ended. The tornado may have|reached peak intensity within the woods; however, the peak|intensity that survey crews were able to find was around 85 mph.

The EF-1 tornado began south of Mason Ferry Rd just south of|McDavid Rd. The start point was difficult to determine as the end|point of another tornado and the start point of this tornado were|close in proximity to each other. However, convergence patterns|and radar analysis did suggest that these were indeed two|separate tornadoes rather than one tornado. The tornado snapped a|couple of softwood trunks and continued sporadically uprooting|trees as it approached Brothers Lake Club Rd where it reached|peak intensity of 90 mph near and around Brothers Lake Club Rd.|The tornado then crosses Mason Ferry Rd and tracked into the|forest before crossing Alabama 217 and finishing near Cleborne|Rd.

Available high resolution satellite imagery revealed a brief|EF0 tornado occurred in the Turnerville area, tracking across|Dixie Road and Salco Road. The tornado caused mainly minor tree|damage along its track, reaching a peak width just across Salco|Road around 100 yards wide.

From NOAA NCEI's Storm Events Database, the narrative the local forecast office wrote for Storm Data.

35 minutes of warning. NWS MOB issued a tornado warning for this county at 04:32 UTC, 35 minutes before the tornado touched down, in force until 05:15 UTC.

The county was under a tornado watch, issued at 23:56 UTC and running to 06:33 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, in the hatched area where significant tornadoes were expected. The outlook in force was issued at 00:54 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), 33 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 05:08 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

56 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.