7 SSW Hanceville Another brief tornado touched down and knocked more trees down along the north end of County Road 506, about 9 miles south s outheast of C ullman . Start: 34.0200/-86.8000 End: 34.0000/-86.8000

NWS EF Scale: F0

The initial touch down was along county road 501 about 13 miles south-southwest of Cullman, just east of I-65, about 2 miles east-southeast of the I-65 291 exit. The tornado initially knocked down a few trees in this area and had a path length of 75 yards and a 50 yard path width. Winds were at 70 mph, making it a F-0 tornado. The tornado lifted and then touched down briefly again along county road 504, about 11 miles south of Cullman. The F-0 tornado with winds topping out at 60 mph had a path length at 20 yards and a 20 yard width. The tornado again quickly lifted and touched down again about 4 miles northeast of the previous touch down, along the north end of county road 506, about 9 miles southeast of Cullman. The path length of this F-0 tornado with maximum wind speeds of 60 mph was again around 20 yards and path width at 20 yards.

A strong cold front tracked east from the Great Lakes south through the lower Mississippi Valley into a moist and unstable airmass that presented strong vertical wind shear. Several broken bands of thunderstorms developed, some of which were supercells producing long tracks of severe weather.

Part of 12-tornado outbreak on March 13, 2006