Tornado, Crenshaw
- When
- November 7, 9:15 PM CST to 9:20 PM CST
- Where
- Crenshaw County, Highland Home to 6 mi SW of Highland Home
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 2.6 mi
- Path width
- 200 yd
- Property damage
- $70,000
- Coordinates
- 31.880, -86.380
Tornado in Alabama, November 7, 1996
A tornado first touched down near the intersections of County Roads 11 and 67. The tornado destroyed a mobile home and threw the two occupants into a nearby corn field.
Where it happened
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- 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
- $70,000
- 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.
What happened
The episode as NWS MOB wrote it up.
A tornado first touched down near the intersections of County Roads 11 and 67. The tornado destroyed a mobile home and threw the two occupants into a nearby corn field. They suffered minor injuries, but did not require hospitalization. The tornado then skipped along the ground for about 2.6 miles before dissipating near the intersection of County Roads 68 and 54. Damage through this area was mostly to trees with the width of damage about 200 yards.
The radar
The Maxwell AFB radar (KMXX), 92 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:16 UTC.
Event by event
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
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 in Georgia, November 7 to 8, 1996
- Tornado in Tennessee, November 7, 1996
- Flash Flood in Oklahoma, November 7, 1996
- Tornado in Alabama, November 7, 1996
- Tornado in Texas, November 7, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Ohio, November 7, 1996
- Tornado in Georgia, November 7, 1996
- Ice Storm in Alaska, November 7, 1996
- Tornado in Kentucky, November 7, 1996
- Tornadoes in Mississippi, November 7, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Texas, November 7, 1996
- Tornado in Kentucky, November 7, 1996
More
Every storm in Alabama in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Alabama, 1996Warnings in Alabama, November 1996
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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5581512.