Two more tornado tracks in north Alabama have been identified by National Weather Service forecasting office in Huntsville.
Field surveys by
meteorologists revealed a tornado touched down in northeast Jackson
County before crossing into north DeKalb County as well as near Fort
Payne in DeKalb County.
That raises the total of tornadoes to nine
that touched down in the Huntsville weather office forecast area in
north Alabama and southern Tennessee.
The Fort Payne tornado was
an EF-2 with peak winds of 115 mph. The Jackson County tornado -- which
touched down near Higdon and the DeKalb County community of Shiloh - was
rated an EF-1 with peak winds of 100 mph.
No injuries were attributed to the tornadoes.
A breakdown of the tornadoes (read the full details of NWS surveys here):
Fort Payne tornado
Rating: EF-2
Peak wind speed: 115 mph
Peak path width: 200 yards
Path length: 3.6 miles
Start/end time: 1:21-1:27 a.m. on April 29.
Damage:
The tornado was spawned by the same storm that dropped an EF-3 tornado
near Sardis at the Etowah-DeKalb county line, according to the weather
service. In addition to snapping multiple trees, the twister rolled a
mobile home and peeled the roof off of another.
Jackson County tornado
Rating: EF-1
Peak wind speed: 100 mph
Peak path width: 100 miles
Path length: 6.2 miles
Start/end time: 8:18-8:29 p.m. on April 28
Damage: Multiple trees were downed and minor structural damage was done to homes, mobile homes and a church.
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