Palm Sunday in Piedmont
Unlike the Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of April 11, 1965, this outbreak was mainly confined to the Southeastern United States. What was unusual about this outbreak was that it was at its strongest during the late morning hours. A very intense supercell thunderstorm formed a wall cloud 1-mile (1.6 km) southwest of Ragland in St. Clair County, Alabama. A tornado spun out of the storm and headed toward Piedmont. At 11:39 a.m., an F4 tornado slammed into the Goshen United Methodist Church, collapsing the roof on the congregation during a Palm Sunday service. It claimed 20 lives and injured 90. Two other houses of worship were destroyed mid-service as well. The tornado was an F4 on the Fujita scale. The supercell that formed this tornado ended up tracking for 200 miles (320 km) to South Carolina.
Read more about this topic: 1994 Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak
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