Alabama storm reports for December 25, 2015

Name: NOAA storm reports, Alabama, December 25, 2015
Creator: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center

NOAA recorded 1 hail report and 2 tornado reports in Alabama on December 25, 2015.

in Alabama; 3
Storm reports: About 2 miles from Birmingham, AL; 1.0 in
Largest hail: Highest rating EF2, about 9 miles from Birmingham, AL; 2
Tornado reports

Hail, inches

0.75
1
1.5
2
2.5
3+

Dots: reports.

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.

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 December 25, 2015 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

Hail1, most at 5 PM

Tornado2, most at 3 PM

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

Every report

Source: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center.

Time	Rating	Where	Path
3:29 PM	EF0	About 14 miles from Tuscaloosa, AL	5 mi long, 185 yd wide
4:55 PM	EF2	About 9 miles from Birmingham, AL	0.92 mi long, 280 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	1.0 in	None	1
Tuscaloosa, AL	None	None	1

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