1994 WMHB Atlantic hurricane season

The 1994 Atlantic hurricane season was an average season that produced 11 named storms, 5 hurricanes, and 2 major hurricanes. It officially started on June 1st and ended on November 30th, dates which conventionally limit the period during which most tropical cyclones form in the Atlantic Ocean. The season's first storm, Tropical Storm Alberto, developed on June 28th, while the last storm, Tropical Storm Keith, dissipated on November 18th. While the season was more active than the three seasons before it, activity was much less than that of the following season.

The season's strongest storm was Hurricane Ernesto, a Category 4 hurricane that had devastating impacts in Central America. In total, Ernesto caused $2.8 billion in damages and was responsible for 771 deaths across Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama. In September, Hurricane Gordon brushed Bermuda as a Category 2 hurricane, and later struck Atlantic Canada as a powerful extratropical cyclone, causing thousands of power outages. The season's last two storms, Joyce and Kirk, produced strong wind gusts and tornadoes across the southern United States.

Tropical Storm Alberto
A tropical wave was first located over the tropical Atlantic on June 27th. With a lack of significant wind shear, the wave organized into a tropical depression the next day. While tracking westward across the Atlantic Ocean, the depression strengthened into Tropical Storm Alberto before entering the Caribbean Sea on June 29th. The storm turned to the northeast and approached Haiti. On June 30th, Alberto made landfall at peak intensity in the province of Sud in western Haiti. Heavy rains from Alberto triggered mudslides on the island as it continued northwest to strike Cuba.

Alberto quickly weakened over Cuba, becoming a tropical depression on July 1st. The storm continued north into Florida, where it ultimately dissipated at 16:00 UTC. Impacts in Haiti and Cuba were relatively minimal, although mudslides and flooding claimed the lives of 14 people across the countries. Heavy rains were also felt in Jamaica, although there are no records of damage from Alberto on the island.