3 NE Ware - 1 WSW Reeves Airport The tornado began in southeast Elmore County along Rock Springs Road north of Rifle Range Road, downing branches and causing damage to an outbuilding. It continued northeastward through inaccessible forest, before snapping and uprooting trees along Dark Corners Road and New Quarter Road. Part of the roof of a home was removed along New Quarter Road with one exterior wall collapsing. It continued northeastward downing more trees along Rifle Range Road before dissipating prior to reaching Highway 229. Start: 32.4892/-86.0017 End: 32.5071/-85.8966

NWS EF Scale: F2

National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in southeast Elmore County and determined that it was consistent with an EF2 tornado, with maximum winds near 115 mph. The tornado began along Rock Springs Road north of Rifle Range Road, downing branches and causing damage to an outbuilding. It continued northeastward through inaccessible forest land, before snapping and uprooting trees along Dark Corners Road and New Quarter Road. A majority of a roof was removed from a home along New Quarter Road with one exterior wall collapsing. It continued northeastward uprooting more trees along Rifle Range Road before dissipating prior to reaching Highway 229.

A very dynamic and deepening low pressure system moved through the Ohio Valley states on November 29-30 with a trailing cold. The air mass across Central Alabama was initially stable during the day on November 29th with surface dewpoints in the 40s and 50s. Instability increased dramatically the evening of the 29th as 60 plus surface dewpoints advected northward into Central Alabama. A QLCS developed ahead of the approaching cold front in addition to discrete thunderstorms.

Part of 10-tornado outbreak on November 30, 2022