2 W Cottage Grove - 1 SSE Hissop A NWS survey team confirmed a tornado of EF-1 intensity that occurred just southeast of Rockford. The tornado moved northeast along Coosa County Road 101, between Coosa County Road 61 to the south and Alabama Highway 22 to the north. Hundreds of trees were damaged/snapped or uprooted. Start: 32.8535/-86.1551 End: 32.8762/-86.1439

NWS EF Scale: F1

National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in Coosa County and determined that it was consistent with an EF1 tornado, with maximum sustained winds near 100 mph. The tornado touched down near County Road 101, about one mile north of County Road 61. The tornado tracked northeast and paralleled County Road 101, where it |snapped or uprooted hundreds of trees. The tornado lifted on County Road 30, about one mile south of Highway 22.

A strong storm system developed over the southern Plains on Friday. A surface low deepened as it moved northeastward across the lower Mississippi Valley early Saturday. Increasing southerly surface winds ahead of the surface low ushered in lower 60s surface dew points into south-central Alabama. The storm system was accompanied by high shear values and strong forcing aloft. The combination of a high-shear and|low level instability was conducive for severe thunderstorm development.||Several rotating thunderstorms were present within a broken line of storms that moved through Central Alabama Saturday afternoon. A total of 4 tornadoes touched down and affected Dallas, Autauga, Elmore and Coosa Counties. In addition to these tornadoes, there were a few reports of damaging straight-line winds and numerous reports of trees down due to the strong winds both ahead and behind the strong cold front.

Part of 4-tornado outbreak on January 19, 2019