1 SW Trinity - 1 ESE Trinity The National Weather Service surveyed damage in rural southern Chilton County, near the Pletcher Community. It was determined that the damage was caused by a tornado. Damage was sporadic along its short path, and primarily consisted of twigs and branches of various size that were broken off of trees. The tornado damage path was 3.0 miles long and was 50 yards wide at its widest point. This tornado occurred during Hurricane Nate. Start: 34.5746/-87.1057 End: 34.5942/-87.0706

NWS EF Scale: F1

The first indications of damage were just east of the Lawrence-Morgan County line along Ghost Hill Road, where several trees were snapped and uprooted. Damage continued to the east-northeast across South Seneca Drive, Mason Drive, Woodland|Avenue, and South Mountain Drive. In this area, numerous softwood and hardwood trees were snapped and uprooted. Several well-built single-family houses were damaged by falling trees; however, all observed structural damage was caused by trees falling on the structures, not by the tornado itself. The tornado weakened considerably after descending the bluffs beyond South Mountain Drive, but still snapped and uprooted a few trees as it moved northeast toward the intersection of Old Highway 24 and Greenway Drive. The most significant structural damage occurred at an RV/boat storage facility near that intersection, where the tornado lifted and displaced one storage shed, and damaged another. The last indication of damage were snapped, partially-rotted trees northwest of the intersection of Tower Street and Owensby|Way.

A line of heavy showers moved slowly eastward through north Alabama during the late evening of the 22nd and early morning of the 23rd. Along the line, an EF-1 tornado developed near the Trinity community in Morgan County tracking just under 2 1/2 miles.