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April 19, 2009 · Morgan County · 2009
EF0

April 19, 2009

5:58 PM
Morgan County, Alabama · Near Hartselle (ZIP 35671)
Fatalities
0
Injuries
0
Path Length
0.5 mi
Max Width
50 yd
DateApril 19, 2009
Time5:58 PM
CountyMorgan
CityHartselle
Property Loss$20000.00M
Crop Loss$0
SourceNCEI 159798
NWS Birmingham

2.4 WSW Brooksville - 1.9 WSW Brooksville A EF-0 tornado snapped and uprooted numerous large pine trees between Shoal Creek Road and Natural Bridge Road. Sporadic tree and structural damage to a shed occurred along Natural Bridge Road, which is just north of Pine Road. Estimated peak wind speed was 85 mph. Start: 34.4852/-86.8874 End: 34.4852/-86.8785

NWS EF Scale: F0

Event Narrative

An EF-0 tornado snapped and uprooted several large trees between Punkin Center and Neel, just north of Iron Man Road. It also downed a tree on a mobile home off of Blankenship Road, but luckily no one was injured. Additional trees were trees were snapped and uprooted along Hazel Street.

Episode Narrative

A strong low pressure system tracking northeast from the southern Ozarks into the Ohio Valley brought a cold front into the central Tennessee Valley during the late afternoon and evening hours of the 19th. Supercells erupted across northern Mississippi, moving into far northwest Alabama shortly before 5 pm CDT. Initially, these storms were large hail producers, with up to baseball sized hail reported in the town of Red Bay in Franklin County. As the early evening progressed, this supercell tracked into Lawrence and Morgan Counties producing wind damage and at least six tornadoes as it moved east. A male individual was killed in the town of Priceville in Morgan County when a tree was knocked down onto his trailer home. The thunderstorms evolved into a quasi-linear convective system (QLCS) as they moved into Marshall and DeKalb Counties. Another tornado developed rapidly in the community of Asbury in Marshall County, killing one and critically injurying another when their mobile home was destroyed. The QLCS progressed into DeKalb County producing additional tornado damage.

Outbreak Context

Part of 18-tornado outbreak on April 19, 2009

Shared Episode Narrative

A strong low pressure system tracking northeast from the southern Ozarks into the Ohio Valley brought a cold front into the central Tennessee Valley during the late afternoon and evening hours of the 19th. Supercells erupted across northern Mississippi, moving into far northwest Alabama shortly before 5 pm CDT. Initially, these storms were large hail producers, with up to baseball sized hail reported in the town of Red Bay in Franklin County. As the early evening progressed, this supercell tracked into Lawrence and Morgan Counties producing wind damage and at least six tornadoes as it moved east. A male individual was killed in the town of Priceville in Morgan County when a tree was knocked down onto his trailer home. The thunderstorms evolved into a quasi-linear convective system (QLCS) as they moved into Marshall and DeKalb Counties. Another tornado developed rapidly in the community of Asbury in Marshall County, killing one and critically injurying another when their mobile home was destroyed. The QLCS progressed into DeKalb County producing additional tornado damage.

Source Data
NCEI Event ID: 159798
SWDI Tornado ID: 2009-04-19T23:52:18Z_KHTX_S3
SWDI Radar Site: KHTX
SWDI Signature: TVS

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