   the 1994 palm sunday tornado outbreak was the third notable tornado outbreak that occurred on palm sunday, and the second to take place in the southeastern united states. this one was on march 27, 1994. it was the most notable tornado event of the year. forty people were killed in the outbreak and 491 were injured. a total of 29 tornadoes ripped through texas, alabama, georgia, south carolina, and north carolina, causing $140 million in damage. ==outbreak summary== 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  southwest of ragland in st. clair county, alabama. a tornado spun out of the storm and headed toward piedmont. at 11:39 a.m., it 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  to south carolina. ==tornado table==  ===march 27 event=== {| class="wikitable collapsible" width="100%" !colspan="6"|list of reported tornadoes - sunday, march 27, 1994 |- |f# || location || county || time (utc) || path length || damage |- |colspan="7" align=center|texas |- |bgcolor=# | f0 |nw of mineral wells |bexar |0705 | |brief touchdown reported by storm chasers with no damage. |- |colspan="7" align=center|alabama |- |bgcolor=# | f4 |ssw of [[ragland,
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