Tornado in Alabama, April 16, 1998

Name: Tornado in Alabama, April 16, 1998
Start: 1998-04-16T18:25
End: 1998-04-16T18:35
Location: Alabama

April 16, 1998 · NWS BMX · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $30,000
Crop damage: $45,000
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.

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Event by event

1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Lamar

When: April 16, 6:25 PM CST to 6:35 PM CST
Where: Lamar County, Hightogy to 5 mi of Hightogy
Rating: F1
Path length: 4.9 mi
Path width: 75 yd
Property damage: $30,000
Crop damage: $45,000
Coordinates: 33.670, -88.180

A small tornado began just west of CR 9 and the Star community along Yellow Creek and moved east-northeast ending at SR 17 at Hightogy. Numerous trees were snapped and uprooted. Several outbuildings, mostly barns, were damaged along with three houses in the Hightogy area. Two houses lost shingles while a third lost a porch.

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

Every storm in Alabama in 1998 Every state in 1998 This day in weather history The tornado archive for Alabama, 1998 Warnings in Alabama, April 1998

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: 5637344.