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March 30, 2022 · Wilcox County · 2022
EF1

March 30, 2022

10:09 PM
Wilcox County, Alabama · Near Camden (ZIP 36726)
Fatalities
0
Injuries
0
Path Length
0.8 mi
Max Width
170 yd
DateMarch 30, 2022
Time10:09 PM
CountyWilcox
CityCamden
Property Loss$0
Crop Loss$0
SourceNCEI 1015117
NWS Birmingham

1 NW - 1 N Camden The tornado began along Mayo street in Camden where a couple trees were uprooted. The tornado quickly intensified as it moved Northeast across Broad St. with numerous uprooted large hardwood and softwood trees. A strong convergent pattern was noted at this location. Peak intensity occurred as it crossed Pine Ridge Road and Rolling Hills Dr. where several large hardwoods were snapped and most other trees were uprooted. The tornado than began to weaken as it crossed Highway 10. The tornado lifted just northeast of Elizabeth Avenue but not before causing damage to a small barn and uprooting some trees. Significant wind damage still occurred along Elizabeth avenue southeast of the circulation where several large hardwoods were uprooted or snapped. However, this was determined to be straight-line wind damage given divergent pattern to the damage right of the parent circulation. Start: 32.0020/-87.3020 End: 32.0063/-87.2899

NWS EF Scale: F1

Event Narrative

The tornado began along Mayo street in Camden where a couple|trees were uprooted. The tornado quickly intensified as it moved|Northeast across Broad St. with numerous uprooted large hardwood|and softwood trees. A strong convergent pattern was noted at this|location. Peak intensity occurred as it crossed Pine Ridge Road and|Rolling Hills Dr. where several large hardwoods were snapped and|most other trees were uprooted. The tornado than began to weaken|as it crossed Highway 10. The tornado lifted just northeast of|Elizabeth Avenue but not before causing damage to a small barn and|uprooting some trees. Significant wind damage still occurred along|Elizabeth avenue southeast of the circulation where several large|hardwoods were uprooted or snapped. However, this was determined|to be straight-line wind damage given divergent pattern to the|damage right of the parent circulation.

Episode Narrative

A very active severe weather season continued as an outbreak of severe thunderstorms occurred across the area from the evening of the 30th into the early morning hours on the 31st. A strong spring storm system moved across the area. Ahead of the system plenty of Gulf moisture returned to the central Gulf coast. This led to a very unstable atmosphere over the region which combined to strong wind shear to produce 18 tornadoes which were rated from EF-0 to EF-2. In addition to the tornadoes, the storms produced damaging straight line winds and large hail. Numerous reports of damage came in from southeast Mississippi, southwest Alabama and the western Florida panhandle.

Outbreak Context

Part of 20-tornado outbreak on March 30, 2022

Shared Episode Narrative

A very active severe weather season continued as an outbreak of severe thunderstorms occurred across the area from the evening of the 30th into the early morning hours on the 31st. A strong spring storm system moved across the area. Ahead of the system plenty of Gulf moisture returned to the central Gulf coast. This led to a very unstable atmosphere over the region which combined to strong wind shear to produce 18 tornadoes which were rated from EF-0 to EF-2. In addition to the tornadoes, the storms produced damaging straight line winds and large hail. Numerous reports of damage came in from southeast Mississippi, southwest Alabama and the western Florida panhandle.

Source Data
NCEI Event ID: 1015117

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