NWS Storm Survey

PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
1235 PM CST TUE MAR 4 2008

..NWS STORM SURVEY TEAMS FIND TWO EF1 TORNADOES

..GREENE COUNTY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS SURVEYING STORM DAMAGE IN
THE TOWN OF EUTAW FOUND A TORNADO DAMAGE PATH. THE DAMAGE IS RATED
AN EF1 ON THE ENHANCED FUJITA SCALE WITH MAXIMUM WIND SPEEDS
ESTIMATED AT 105 MPH…WITH A MAXIMUM WIDTH OF 300 YARDS. THE TORNADO
TOUCHED DOWN NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAY 11 AND COUNTY ROAD 135.
THE TORNADO CROSSED INTERSTATE 20 NEAR MILE MARKER 43 AND LIFTED
BEFORE REACHING COUNTY ROAD 167. THE PATH LENGTH WAS 5.6 MILES.
TWENTY FIVE HOMES RECEIVED DAMAGE…ONE HOME WAS DESTROYED AND FOUR
HOMES RECEIVED MAJOR DAMAGE. SEVERAL HUNDRED TREES WERE SNAPPED OR
DOWNED. NO INJURIES OR FATALITIES WERE REPORTED.

..TUSCALOOSA COUNTY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS SURVEYING STORM DAMAGE IN
THE NORTHERN TUSCALOOSA COUNTY FOUND A TORNADO DAMAGE PATH. THE
DAMAGE IS RATED AN EF1 ON THE ENHANCED FUJITA SCALE WITH MAXIMUM WIND
SPEEDS ESTIMATED AT 90 MPH…WITH A MAXIMUM WIDTH OF 200 YARDS. THE
TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN ABOUT 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF THE TOWN OF SAMANTHA
NEAR COUNTY ROAD 38…AND WAS ON THE GROUND ABOUT THREE-QUARTERS OF
MILE. SIX HOMES WERE DAMAGED AND ONE HOME HEAVILY DAMAGED. SEVERAL
HUNDRED TREES WERE SNAPPED OR DOWNED. NO INJURIES OR FATALITIES WERE
REPORTED.

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