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Public Information Statement

National Weather Service Mobile AL

155 AM CDT Wed May 15 2024



...NWS Damage Survey for 05/10/2024 Tornado Event...



.Midway Alabama to Georgiana Alabama Tornado...



Rating:                 EF2

Estimated Peak Wind:    115 mph

Path Length /statute/:  19.81 miles

Path Width /maximum/:   250 yards

Fatalities:             0

Injuries:               0



Start Date:             05/10/2024

Start Time:             02:03 AM CDT

Start Location:         3 N Skinnerton / Monroe County / AL

Start Lat/Lon:          31.7092 / -87.064



End Date:               05/10/2024

End Time:               02:21 AM CDT

End Location:           Georgiana / Butler County / AL

End Lat/Lon:            31.6402 / -86.7385



Survey Summary:

The tornado started just west of State Highway 83 about 1 mile 

southwest of Midway, AL in Conecuh County at EF-1 intensity where 

several trees were snapped in a rotating pattern. The tornado then 

moved east and crossed Mixonville Rd just south of the community of 

Mixonville where multiple pine trees were snapped and uprooted. The 

tornado continued eastward and crossed the intersection of County 

Road 33 and Osprey Road where additional trees were snapped with 

some slight debarking was noted on a few trees. The tornado peaked 

in intensity at estimated EF-2 strength (115 mph) as it crossed into 

Butler County where numerous pine trees were snapped in a wide 

swaths along portions of State Highway 106. A manufactured home was 

rolled near the intersection of State Highway 106 and Interstate 65. 

Trees were downed in several neighborhoods in the community of 

Georgiana before the tornado likely lifted as the circulation 

dissipated just east of Georgiana.



.Significant Damaging Winds Monroe County Alabama...



In addition to the tornado, swaths of significant straight line wind 

damage were surveyed in Monroe County Alabama, including in the 

community of Vredenburgh was a large pine tree snapped and then 

landed on a destroyed a residence (estimated 90 mph), near Buena 

Vista and Rikard's Mill where damaging winds uprooted and snapped 

trees (90 mph), along a private camp site east of State Highway 265 

where numerous trees were snapped (100-110 mph), and near the 

community of Beatrice where additional trees were downed (90 mph).



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EF Scale: The Enhanced Fujita Scale classifies tornadoes into the

following categories:



EF0.....65 to 85 mph

EF1.....86 to 110 mph

EF2.....111 to 135 mph

EF3.....136 to 165 mph

EF4.....166 to 200 mph

EF5.....>200 mph



NOTE:

The information in this statement is preliminary and subject to

change pending final review of the event and publication in

NWS Storm Data.



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