Alabama, 1994

Tornado in Alabama, April 5, 1994

April 5, 1994 · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Property damage
$500,000
Crop damage
None recorded
Events
1

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

1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Sumter

When
April 5, 8:30 PM CST
Where
Sumter County, Geiger to Gainesville
Rating
F1
Path length
8 mi
Path width
100 yd
Property damage
$500,000
Coordinates
32.820, -88.300

A tornado touched down in the area just south of Geiger and moved on a generally eastward path parallelling State Highway 116 to the area just west of Gainesville. Power lines were downed, one building was destroyed and another heavily damaged, trees were snapped and uprooted, and a mobile home was damaged.

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.

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The same day elsewhere

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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: 10313932.