Tornado, Pike
- When
- April 18, 12:30 AM CST
- Where
- Pike County
- Path length
- 2.5 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 31.800, -86.000
Tornadoes in Alabama, April 18, 1969
4 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 2
- Injuries
- 14
- Property damage
- $1.0 million
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 4
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
Event by event
4 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Butler
- When
- April 18, 2:30 AM CST
- Where
- Butler County
- Rating
- F4
- Path length
- 12.8 mi
- Path width
- 500 yd
- Deaths
- 2 direct, 0 indirect
- Injuries
- 11 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 31.830, -86.630
Tornado, Crenshaw
- When
- April 18, 2:30 AM CST
- Where
- Crenshaw County
- Rating
- F4
- Path length
- 32.8 mi
- Path width
- 500 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 31.930, -86.450
Tornado, Bullock
- When
- April 18, 2:45 AM CST
- Where
- Bullock County
- Rating
- F4
- Path length
- 6.8 mi
- Path width
- 500 yd
- Injuries
- 3 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 32.220, -86.000
What these are
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes and Hail in Georgia, April 18, 1969
- Tornadoes and Hail in North Carolina, April 18, 1969
- Tornadoes and Hail in South Carolina, April 18, 1969
- Tornado and Hail in West Virginia, April 18, 1969
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kentucky, April 18, 1969
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, April 18, 1969
- Hail in Ohio, April 18, 1969
More
Every storm in Alabama in 1969Every state in 1969This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Alabama, 1969
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 9978451, 9978452, 9978453, 9978454.