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November 10, 2002 Curry Tornado

Several ingredients, including:

• a warm and unstable airmass,
• wind shear in the low levels
• strong upper level winds
• and a cold front pushing into the state

...combined to bring severe thunderstorms and tornadoes to a large portion of North and Central Alabama Sunday night and early Monday morning. Several destructive tornadoes in the north half of the state caused widespread damage and numerous fatalities and injuries.

Meteorologists from the National Weather Service conducted extensive on-site surveys of the destruction caused by the tornadoes. While the initial estimate was 12 to 15 tornadoes, we now believe that 10 tornadoes actually occurred. The tornado count was reduced primarily because of the long track nature of two of the most intense storms.

The following table contains the essential information on each of the tornadoes, presented chronologically. The tornado names link to separate pages with details concerning each tornado, including damage path maps and photos.

* * * All information is considered preliminary as long as data is being collected. * * *

Tornado Name	Counties Affected	F-rating	Begin Time (CST)	End Time (CST)	Length (miles)	Width (yards)	Deaths	Injuries
Carbon Hill/Thatch Tornado	Fayette-Walker-Winston	F-3	6:52 pm	7:45 pm	44.3	1175	3	10
Fernbank Tornado *	Lamar	F-2	7:31 pm	7:42 pm	7.2	150	0	2
Stafford Tornado *	Pickens	F-1	7:42 pm	7:48 pm	4.5	75	0	0
Saragossa/Curry Tornado	Fayette-Walker-Winston-Cullman	F-3	8:15 pm	9:52 pm	72.6	1100	7	45
Holly Pond Tornado	Cullman	F-1	9:35 pm	9:52 pm	11.3	100	0	0
Boley Springs Tornado	Fayette	F-1	9:10 pm	9:15 pm	4.3	90	0	0
Dora Tornado	Walker	F-1	9:43 pm	9:47 pm	1.6	300	0	ukn
Oneonta Tornado	Blount	F-1	10:22 pm	10:32 pm	10.6	300	0	0
Abernant Tornado	Tuscaloosa-Jefferson	F-2	10:22 pm	10:43 pm	15.2	450	0	3
Chandler Mountain Tornado	Cullman	F-1	10:42 pm	10:44 pm	1.8	50	0	0
Centre Tornado	Cherokee	F-2	11:23 pm	11:35 pm	10.5	440	1	4

* Note: All details here for the Fernbank and Stafford Tornadoes represent those for their Alabama portions only.

In addition to these tornadoes, significant straight line wind damage was also reported in Autauga County

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