March 3, 2019
3:15 PM| Date | March 3, 2019 |
| Time | 3:15 PM |
| County | Bullock |
| City | Troy |
| Property Loss | $0 |
| Crop Loss | $0 |
| Source | NCEI 814841 |
4 SSW Inverness The tornado touched down just west of County Road 27, about 5 miles west northwest of Perote. Trees were uprooted and many large branches snapped off. The tornado tracks eastward across County Road 27 and crossed County 8. The tornado produced fairly weak tree damage including a few trees uprooted and many branches broken off. The tornado lifted just east of County Road 8. The tornado damage path was 0.41 miles long and was 40 yards wide at its widest point. This same storm produced rear flank downdraft winds and damage east and south of the brief tornado path. This damage occurred along US Highway 29 at the Perote Cemetery. Several trees were uprooted and many branches were broken off. This damage was concentrated and showed no signs of convergence or rotation. Start: 31.9637/-85.7804 End: 31.9637/-85.7733
NWS EF Scale: F0
National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in far southern Bullock County and determined that it was consistent with an EF0 tornado, with maximum sustained winds near 65 mph.||A brief tornado touched down just west of County Road 27. It tracked east crossing County Road 27 and very briefly paralleled County Road 8 before lifting. Several trees were snapped or uprooted.
On the morning of Sunday March 3rd, 2019, an upper-level disturbance moved eastward from the Southern Plains into the southern Gulf Coast States. As favorable upper-level support and deep-layer forcing approached the lower Mississippi River Valley, a surface low pressure developed and moved northeastward into Central Alabama by late morning. Ahead of this surface low, a warm front initially along the Florida Panhandle moved northward allowing for the transport of warm, moist unstable air into southern and southeastern Central Alabama. This frontal boundary eventually became more stationary and stalled out north of the I-85 corridor as the strengthening surface low moved eastward. During this time, a large area of elevated thunderstorms affected portions northern Central Alabama while supercell thunderstorms initiated across the favorable warm sector. As these supercells intensified during the afternoon, parameters became favorable for tornadic thunderstorms in an area along and south of the I-85 corridor.
Part of 12-tornado outbreak on March 3, 2019
On the morning of Sunday March 3rd, 2019, an upper-level disturbance moved eastward from the Southern Plains into the southern Gulf Coast States. As favorable upper-level support and deep-layer forcing approached the lower Mississippi River Valley, a surface low pressure developed and moved northeastward into Central Alabama by late morning. Ahead of this surface low, a warm front initially along the Florida Panhandle moved northward allowing for the transport of warm, moist unstable air into southern and southeastern Central Alabama. This frontal boundary eventually became more stationary and stalled out north of the I-85 corridor as the strengthening surface low moved eastward. During this time, a large area of elevated thunderstorms affected portions northern Central Alabama while supercell thunderstorms initiated across the favorable warm sector. As these supercells intensified during the afternoon, parameters became favorable for tornadic thunderstorms in an area along and south of the I-85 corridor.