4 WNW Shopton - 4 WNW Shopton The tornado touched down just southwest of the intersection of US Highway 82 and Old Pike Road. The tornado crossed Old Pike Road and snapped a few trees before dissipating a short distance to the east. Also, a tornado debris signature was observed from the KMXX radar. Start: 32.1341/-86.0133 End: 32.1324/-86.0020

NWS EF Scale: F0 Polygon

NWS meteorologists surveyed damage to the southeast of the city of Montgomery near the Pinedale Community and determined it was the result of a tornado. The tornado touched down near the intersection of Woodley Road and Virginia Loop Road. It caused minor tree damage until it crossed US Highway 231, where significant damage occurred in the Pike Road Village mobile home park. Numerous large trees were snapped and uprooted, some of which damaged or destroyed mobile homes. The tornado continued eastward and crossed Bean Road where a mobile home had its roof removed and was shifted off its foundation. The tornado lifted north of Meriwether Road.

As a strong shortwave trough approached central Alabama from the west a low level southerly jet intensified over the area. Cold air advection aloft associated with the short wave produced steep lapse rates favorable for damaging winds and large hail.|The low level jet also produced a maximum of storm-relative helicity over east Alabama during the evening hours, and enhanced the threat of tornadoes.

Part of 9-tornado outbreak on April 6, 2016