PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
608 PM CDT FRI MAY 16 2008
...PRELIMINARY DAMAGE SURVEY RESULTS FOR THE SEVERE WEATHER EVENT ON THURSDAY MAY 15TH 2008...
A NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STORM SURVEY HAD BEEN CONDUCTED TODAY ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE.
...SOUTH (COVINGTON COUNTY ALABAMA)...
PRELIMINARY SURVEY RESULTS INDICATE THAT MOST OF THE DAMAGE THAT OCCURRED WAS NEAR THE TOWN OF SOUTH ALABAMA...AND WAS THE RESULT OF AN EF0 TORNADO (WINDS 81-85 MPH). THE TORNADO INITIALLY TOUCHED DOWN NEAR SOUTH (ESTIMATED TIME AROUND 1235 PM)...AND THEN TRACKED ABOUT 2.5 MILES TO THE NORTHEAST AT AROUND 37 MPH. MAXIMUM PATH WIDTH WAS AROUND 100 YARDS. THREE HOMES AND ONE MOBILE HOME WERE DAMAGED. TREES WERE ALSO DAMAGED...WITH A FEW UPROOTED.
...COHASSETT (EXTREME EASTERN CONECUH COUNTY ALABAMA)...
PRELIMINARY SURVEY RESULTS INDICATE THAT A BRIEF TORNADO TOUCHDOWN OCCURRED NEAR COHASSETT ALABAMA (ESTIMATED TIME AROUND 1227 PM) ALONG U.S. HIGHWAY 84 NEAR THE CONECUH...COVINGTON COUNTY LINE. TREE DAMAGE RESULTED FROM THIS EF0 TORNADO (WINDS 81-85 MPH). FURTHER INFORMATION HAS REVEALED THAT THIS DAMAGE MAY BE RELATED TO A SINGLE TORNADO WHICH IMPACTED BOTH COHASSETT AND SOUTH...TOUCHING DOWN NEAR COHASSETT FIRST THEN TRAVELING TO NEAR SOUTH ALABAMA. THIS INFORMATION WILL BE UPDATED FURTHER ON MONDAY.
...MCDAVID (NORTHERN ESCAMBIA COUNTY FLORIDA)...
PRELIMINARY SURVEY RESULTS INDICATE THAT THE DAMAGE WAS A RESULT OF STRAIGHT LINE WINDS ESTIMATED AT 80 TO 85 MPH THAT OCCURRED AT 1158 AM. MOST OF THE DAMAGE THAT OCCURRED WAS ALONG HIGHWAY 29. SEVEN STRUCTURES WERE DAMAGED WITH ROOFS OFF TWO HOMES. POWER LINES WERE ALSO DOWN IN THE AREA.
...FAIRHOPE AND SUMMERDALE (SOUTHERN BALDWIN COUNTY ALABAMA)...
PRELIMINARY SURVEY RESULTS REPORTS INDICATE THAT THE DAMAGE WAS A RESULT OF STRAIGHT LINE WINDS ESTIMATED AT 60 TO 65 MPH THAT OCCURRED FROM 1115 TO 1125 AM. TREE AND POWER LINE DAMAGE WAS REPORTING NEAR THE TOWNS OF FAIRHOPE AND SUMMERDALE...WITH SEVERAL STRUCTURES DAMAGED IN SUMMERDALE.
...CITRONELLE (NORTHERN MOBILE COUNTY ALABAMA)...
PRELIMINARY SURVEY RESULTS INDICATE WIND DAMAGE OF 60 TO 65 MPH OCCURRED BETWEEN 1055 AND 1100 AM WITH SEVERAL LARGE LIMBS AND TREES BLOWN DOWN IN CITRONELLE. ONE TREE FELL THROUGH AN OLDER MANUFACTURED HOME AND SPLIT THE HOME IN HALF AS WELL AS FELL ON A TRUCK NEAR THE HOME. ANOTHER LARGE TREE FELL ON THE ROOF OF ANOTHER HOME.
FURTHER UPDATES WILL BE FORTHCOMING AS MORE INFORMATION BECOMES AVAILABLE.
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