Event details
Tornado · Confirmed
Tornado bei Smiths Station
21.01.2017 · Smiths Station · Alabama · United States
Media
0
Sources & links
4
Damages
0
Chasing
0
Radar/Satellite
0
Coordinates
available
Old ID
66009
Damage track length
1,22 km
Max. width
0,18 km
Duration
1
Injured
0
Fatalities
0
Description
No description has been added yet.
Technical details
- Duration
- 1
- Maximum damage track width
- 0,18 km
- Damage track length
- 1,22 km
- Extent
- 100
- Type in legacy database
- Tornado
- Count
- 1
- Intensity estimate
- Damage assessment by a weather expert
- Intensity source
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_tornadoes_in_January_2017#January_21_event
- Source type
- Website
- Uncertainty / doubt
- No
- Land use at start
- Land
- Land use at end
- Land
- Surface / terrain
- Land
- Injured
- 0
- Fatalities
- 0
- Location description
- Lee
- Position
- WSW of Smiths Station
- Area
- Flat
- Continent
- North America
- Geographic accuracy
- 1 km
Sources and further links
4 entries
Source
2
Source
Hauptquelle
mesonet.agron.iastate.edu open externally
Source
Quelle
mesonet.agron.iastate.edu
Link
1
Info
1
Info
Info
Dozens of trees were downed. Many buildings at the Smiths Station School Athletic Complex were destroyed and many others were damaged.
Key facts
- Date
- 21.01.2017
- Time
- 09:19:00
- Location
- Smiths Station
- Region
- Alabama
- Country
- United States
- Old ID
- 66009
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