The tornado first touched down on West Boulevard just south of South Boulevard in Silverhill. At this location two homes suffered roof damage with some windows blown out. The tornado then tracked toward the northeast quickly widening and reaching EF-2 intensity on the Enhanced Fujita Tornado Scale as it moved just south of South Avenue west of County Road 55. Maximum winds were between 111 miles per hour and 135 miles per hour. Several homes were destroyed or severely damaged, and a utility trailer was thrown nearly 100 yards. A pickup truck that was backing out of the U.S. Post Office was tossed 40 yards and flipped, with minor injuries to the driver. The tornado continue northeast crossing Highway 104, doing major damage to several homes, businesses and structures. The tornado lifted near County Road 52 just east of Hill Road.

A powerful cold front brought widespread severe thunderstorms to southwest Alabama. These thunderstorms produced many reports of large hail...damaging winds and tornadoes. The thunderstorms also produced heavy rain which caused flash flooding.

Part of 3-tornado outbreak on March 9, 2011