Crews - 1 E Winfield A tornado touched down just southwest of the Beaverton community in Lamar county Wednesday evening. The tornado first touched down along Highway 278 with very minor tree damage noted. The tornado then moved almost due east across Highway 278 producing sporadic tree damage as it crossed Turkey Branch Road and Markham Road in far eastern Lamar County. A small barn was also damaged in this area. The tornado then straddled the Fayette and Marion county line with mostly softwood trees uprooted in this forested area. The tornado crossed County Road 69 moving completely into southern Marion county and into the western portions of Winfield. The most notable damage was in downtown Winfield as the tornado strengthened to EF-1 intensity. Here damage to several buildings in downtown was noted along Highway 43. Several businesses sustained roof and structural damage with windows being blown out of others. A strip mall lost a large section of its roof structure. The damage here was deemed 110 mph. The tornado was also at its widest going through downtown at approximately 300 yards wide. The tornado narrowed fairly rapidly as it exited downtown and began to wind down in the more residential areas east of town. Some homes sustained minor roof damage along Highway 43 near the Highway 129 intersection. Further east the tornado lifted with only sporadic minor tree damage noted. Start: 33.9167/-88.0816 End: 33.9307/-87.7764

NWS EF Scale: F1

National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in northern Lamar County and determined that it was consistent with an EF0 tornado, with maximum winds near 75 mph. The tornado touched down southwest of the town of Beaverton near Highway 77, about one-quarter of a mile north of Highway 278. The tornado tracked east across Highway 278 producing sporadic tree damage as it crossed Turkey Branch Road and Markham Road. A small barn was also damaged in this area. The tornado then crossed into far southwestern Marion County near Reese Road.

A line of storms with embedded supercells developed south of an outflow boundary ahead of a slow-moving cold front, producing damaging winds and several tornadoes across the northern portions of central Alabama during the evening hours on December 29th. The surface boundary shifted into the southern counties of central Alabama on December 30th. The low level shear was not favorable for tornadoes, but the storms were robust enough to produce damaging winds and large hail.

Part of 4-tornado outbreak on December 29, 2021