2.4 SSW Homewood - 2.1 SSW Homewood A QLCS produced a tornado, with winds estimated at 100 mph, in the city of Vestavia Hills. The brief tornado touched down near the Vestavia Hills Police Department along Highway 31, traveled northeast and crossed Bird Park and lifted just to the north of the Vestavia Hills Country Club, near Glenwood Road. Numerous hardwood trees were uprooted and thirty pine trees in Bird Park were snapped. An automobile sustained damage when its windows were blown out. Several buildings, homes and fencing were damaged; most due to fallen trees. One home sustained significant damage as the drywall fasteners on the ceiling were loosened by the force of the winds. Start: 33.4496/-86.7883 End: 33.4520/-86.7823

NWS EF Scale: F1

A quasi linear convective system produced an EF1 tornado, with winds estimated at 100 mph, in the city of Vestavia Hills. The path was 0.4 miles long and 100 yards wide. The brief tornado touched down near the Vestavia Hills Police Department along Highway 31, traveled northeast crossing Bird Park and lifted just to the north of the Vestavia Hills Country Club, near Glenwood Road. Numerous hardwood trees were uprooted and thirty pine trees in Bird Park were snapped. An automobile sustained damage when its windows were blown out. Several buildings, homes and fencing were damaged; most due to fallen trees. One home sustained significant damage as the drywall fasteners on the ceiling were loosened by the force of the winds.

Ahead of a cold front associated with a strong upper level storm system, a squall line moved across Central Alabama on Monday, April 11. This line of thunderstorms produced widespread wind damage, knocked down numerous trees and power lines and damaged many homes and buildings. In addition, embedded areas of rotation along the line produced one tornado, an EF1 in Jefferson County.