Tornado in Alabama, January 22, 1999

Name: Tornado in Alabama, January 22, 1999
Start: 1999-01-22T15:43
End: 1999-01-22T15:47
Location: Alabama

January 22, 1999 · NWS BMX · 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: None recorded
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.

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Event by event

1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Colbert

When: January 22, 3:43 PM CST to 3:47 PM CST
Where: Colbert County, Muscle Shoals to 5 mi S of Muscle Shoals
Rating: F0
Path length: 1 mi
Path width: 30 yd
Reported by: AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
Coordinates: 34.680, -87.670

A tornado briefly touched down 5 miles south of Muscle Shoals with little or no damage. The tornado was also reported on the Muscle Shoals surface observation at 1543 through 1557. Emergency management surveyed the area of the tornado report and could not find any damage in a mostly open area.

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 1999 Every state in 1999 This day in weather history The tornado archive for Alabama, 1999 Warnings in Alabama, January 1999

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: 5679136.