Storms in Alabama in 1968

88 events in 34 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Alabama in 1968, 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 1968 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

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The year

Events: 88
Deaths: 1
Injuries: 46
Damage: $7.3 million
Episodes: 34

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 event	Events	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
Thunderstorm Wind	57	0	0
Hail	17	0	0
Tornado	14	1	46	$7.3 million

Every episode, month by month

January 1968

Tornado and Damaging Wind in Alabama, January 23, 1968$250,000 · F1 · 2 events

March 1968

April 1968

May 1968

June 1968

July 1968

August 1968

November 1968

December 1968

Every year in Alabama Every state in 1968 Tornadoes in Alabama in 1968 1967 1969

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.