Tornado, Tuscaloosa
- When
- February 13, 8:00 PM CST
- Where
- Tuscaloosa County
- Rating
- F3
- Path length
- 3.3 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Deaths
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Injuries
- 14 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 33.570, -87.670
Tornadoes in Alabama, February 13, 1952
5 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 2
- Injuries
- 46
- Property damage
- $5.3 million
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 5
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.
Event by event
5 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Fayette
- When
- February 13, 8:00 PM CST
- Where
- Fayette County
- Rating
- F3
- Path length
- 2.3 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 33.600, -87.630
Tornado, Cullman
- When
- February 13, 8:30 PM CST
- Where
- Cullman County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 1.3 mi
- Path width
- 400 yd
- Injuries
- 3 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $2.5 million
- Coordinates
- 34.020, -86.750
Tornado, Blount
- When
- February 13, 8:30 PM CST
- Where
- Blount County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 4.7 mi
- Path width
- 400 yd
- Injuries
- 3 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $2.5 million
- Coordinates
- 34.030, -86.730
Tornado, Jefferson
- When
- February 13, 9:30 PM CST
- Where
- Jefferson County
- Rating
- F3
- Path width
- 200 yd
- Deaths
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Injuries
- 26 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 33.600, -86.930
The people who died
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado, Tuscaloosa | 1952-02-13 | Direct | |||
| Tornado, Jefferson | 1952-02-13 | Direct |
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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
More
Every storm in Alabama in 1952Every state in 1952This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Alabama, 1952
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: 9979430, 9979431, 9979432, 9979433, 9979434.