Alabama storm reports for January 22, 2012

Name: NOAA storm reports, Alabama, January 22, 2012
Creator: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center

NOAA recorded 2 hail reports, 3 wind reports and 9 tornado reports in Alabama on January 22, 2012.

in Alabama; 14
Storm reports: About 25 miles from Huntsville, AL; 1.0 in
Largest hail: About 10 miles from Tuscaloosa, AL; 69 mph
Highest gust: Highest rating EF3, about 7 miles from Birmingham, AL; 9
Tornado reports

Hail, inches

0.75
1
1.5
2
2.5
3+

Dots: reports.

Wind report
Tornado and its path
Surveyed tornado path

Sources: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports; damage surveys from the NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit

Hail, inches

0.75
1
1.5
2
2.5
3+

Dots: reports.

Wind report
Tornado and its path
Surveyed tornado path

Source: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center, final severe weather database (from NOAA's Storm Data). Report day: 12:00 UTC on January 22, 2012 to 12:00 UTC the next day. Times are Central.

Select a dot or a path for the report. NWS survey teams walked the shaded paths after the storm; each is drawn at the widest width they found, so it can look wider than the damage at any one spot.

Reports by hour

Hail2, most at 1 AM

Wind3, most at 2 AM

Tornado9, most at 3 AM

Reports per hour, Central time. Each row has its own scale.

Every report

Source: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center.

Time	Rating	Where	Path
2:36 AM	EF0	About 46 miles from Tuscaloosa, AL	0.36 mi long, 100 yd wide
2:42 AM	EF2	About 10 miles from Tuscaloosa, AL	0.45 mi long, 400 yd wide
3:00 AM	EF2	About 12 miles from Tuscaloosa, AL	0.56 mi long, 300 yd wide
3:09 AM	EF2	About 19 miles from Tuscaloosa, AL	13.13 mi long, 880 yd wide
3:21 AM	EF0	About 55 miles from Tuscaloosa, AL	1.1 mi long, 50 yd wide
3:58 AM	EF3	About 7 miles from Birmingham, AL	15.69 mi long, 800 yd wide
4:33 AM	EF1	About 39 miles from Tuscaloosa, AL	2.1 mi long, 300 yd wide
4:37 AM	EF2	About 39 miles from Tuscaloosa, AL	39.77 mi long, 880 yd wide
5:35 AM	EF0	About 33 miles from Birmingham, AL	5.4 mi long, 50 yd wide

Cities with reports nearby

Reports within 15 miles of the center of each city we track.

City	Largest hail	Highest gust	Tornado reports
Birmingham, AL	None	None	1
Tuscaloosa, AL	None	69 mph	2

Reports are what observers recorded near a location, not a complete record of every storm. They don’t describe conditions at any building.

Time	Gust	Where
12:34 AM	58 mph	Near 34.28, -87.77, AL
2:25 AM	58 mph	About 17 miles from Tuscaloosa, AL
2:40 AM	69 mph	About 10 miles from Tuscaloosa, AL

Time	Size	Where
1:15 AM	1.0 in	About 25 miles from Huntsville, AL
2:36 AM	0.75 in	About 36 miles from Huntsville, AL