Alabama

Storms in Alabama in 1958

36 events in 17 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Alabama in 1958, with each episode’s narrative and every event in it. Before 1996 the record holds tornadoes, hail and thunderstorm wind only, without narratives; floods, heat, winter storms and the other kinds begin in 1996.

Alabama in 1958 on the map

Every episode with a place to put it, colored by kind of event.

  • Tornadoes
  • Tropical storms and surge
  • Floods
  • Wind
  • Hail
  • Winter weather
  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
  • Fire, smoke and dust
  • Marine and coastal
  • Other

Open the live radar over Alabama

The year

Events
36
Deaths
1
Injuries
3
Damage
$2.1 million
Episodes
17

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.

By kind of event

Kind of eventEventsDeathsInjuriesDamage
Tornado2313$2.1 million
Hail1000
Thunderstorm Wind300

Every episode, month by month

January 1958

February 1958

April 1958

May 1958

June 1958

September 1958

October 1958

More

Every year in AlabamaEvery state in 1958Tornadoes in Alabama in 195819571959

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.