National Weather Service To Determine If Damage Was Tornado

March 10, 2011

Officials with the National Weather Service Office in Mobile will survey damage in McDavid today to determine if a tornado was responsible for destroying several homes Wednesday.

Even with all of the technology available to meteorologists today, the weather service still relies on a personal visit to ground zero to analyze the damage to make a final determination. The technical data will be combined with the eyes-on-the-ground observations, using the criteria of the Fujita Scale, to classify the strength of a tornado – or determine if the damage was from just thunderstorm winds.

They will work to determine if all of the debris is running in one line or scattered. With the damage in a line across McDavid preliminary data would lean toward a possible minor tornado.

Once the National Weather Service determines the cause of Wednesday’s damage, we will post their findings here on NorthEscambia.com.

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Written by William Reynolds · Filed Under Archive