Event narrative (NOAA)
National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in northwest Perry County and determined that it was consistent with an EF3 tornado, with maximum winds near 150 mph.||A strong, long-track tornado traveled across Hale, Perry, Bibb, Chilton, and Shelby Counties during the afternoon of March 25, 2021. It is estimated that the tornado had a 98 minute life span, with a path length of 80 miles. The tornado crossed from Hale into Perry County near County Road 51. A mobile home was destroyed with a site built home on the same property sustaining roof loss and some shifting of the crawl space foundation. Structural damage was most apparent in the vicinity of the confluence of County Road 23 and Old Salem Church Road. In this area, mobile homes were destroyed, with one site built home havin
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Source: NOAA/NCEI Storm Events Database. Deaths and injuries are those NOAA classifies as direct. Damage is the reporting office's estimate at the time and is not inflation-adjusted. This is a catalogue record, not a forecast.