title: Tornado disaster--Alabama, March 27, 1994.
abstract: On Sunday, March 27, 1994, a series of severe thunderstorms and tornadoes moved across Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. These storms accounted for injuries to at least 422 persons, including 47 fatalities. Twenty-three fatalities were associated with a tornado that cut a path across St. Clair, Calhoun, and Cherokee counties in northeastern Alabama from 10:55 a.m. to 11:39 a.m. (Figure 1). This tornado damaged or destroyed three churches while services were being conducted. This report provides a summary of the injuries and deaths associated with this tornado based on information from death certificates from coroners' offices in the three counties and from emergency department and inpatient medical records from eight area hospitals.
mesh_terms: D000407:Alabama / Q000453:epidemiology; D004190:Disasters / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D009026:Mortality; D014947:Wounds and Injuries