Tornado, Lauderdale
- When
- April 17, 3:35 AM CST
- Where
- Lauderdale County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 34.950, -87.220
Tornadoes in Alabama, April 17, 1982
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
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $750,000
- 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, Limestone
- When
- April 17, 3:37 AM CST
- Where
- Limestone County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 25 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 34.950, -87.200
Tornado, Lawrence
- When
- April 17, 4:00 AM CST
- Where
- Lawrence County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 40 yd
- Property damage
- $30
- Coordinates
- 34.670, -87.330
Tornado, Madison
- When
- April 17, 4:25 AM CST
- Where
- Madison County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 2 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 34.930, -86.780
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
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in Mississippi, April 17, 1982
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Pennsylvania, April 17, 1982
- Tornado in Tennessee, April 17, 1982
- Damaging Winds in Louisiana, April 17, 1982
- Damaging Wind in Arkansas, April 17, 1982
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, April 17, 1982
- Damaging Wind in District of Columbia, April 17, 1982
- Damaging Wind in Virginia, April 17, 1982
More
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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: 9978526, 9978527, 9978528, 9978529.