2 NW Hayneville-6.42 NE Lowndesboro National Weather Service Meteorologists have surveyed the damage in Lowndes County and determined that the damage was the result of an EF-2 tornado. The tornado touched down on Highway 97 between Hayneville and Lowndesboro. Hundreds of trees were snapped or uprooted in a half-mile wide swath across Highway 97. The tornado continued to the northeast and intensified as it moved over mainly pastureland. Just south of Highway 80, the tornado struck a farm, significantly damaging a large, well- constructed cattle barn. A second large metal cattle barn was mostly destroyed as well. Numerous power poles were snapped or downed along Highway 80. A heavy-duty dumpster was lofted and thrown approximately 250 yards across Highway 80. Tin roofing material and other debris was lofted and blown over one-quarter mile. The tornado continued across Highway 80, damaging multiple homes along Lake Berry Road. One home had the roof largely removed and cracking in the cement block foundation. Three to five additional homes had minor roof damage. The tornado continued northeastward toward the old GE Plastics plant where it mowed down numerous trees and flipped several empty semi –trailers onto their sides. The tornado lifted just north of the Gate 1 entrance to the plant and east of County Road 37. Start: 32.2043/-86.6041 End: 32.3133/-86.5115

NWS EF Scale: F 2 Polygon

This brief EF-0 touchdown occurred in the Mosses community. Several homes had minor shingle damage, siding was peeled from the side of the elementary school, and one rotten hardwood was snapped. The tornado lifted just east of Mason Dr.

Late Christmas Eve, a well amplified upper level trough dug into the southern Plains. In response, a surface low developed Christmas morning over southern Texas. As the upper low deepened and tilted negatively, the surface low strengthened as it moved eastward. By Christmas afternoon, a swath of severe weather swept across the Deep South, with discrete supercells and a broken line of thunderstorms in trail. These thunderstorms moved across central Alabama during the evening hours, bringing with them strong straight line winds, numerous tornadoes, as well as flooding.

Part of 18-tornado outbreak on December 25, 2012