Alabama

Storms in Alabama in 1971

135 events in 47 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Alabama in 1971, 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 1971 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
135
Deaths
4
Injuries
16
Damage
$1.7 million
Episodes
47

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
Thunderstorm Wind8200
Hail3000
Tornado23416$1.7 million

Every episode, month by month

January 1971

February 1971

March 1971

April 1971

May 1971

June 1971

July 1971

September 1971

October 1971

December 1971

More

Every year in AlabamaEvery state in 1971Tornadoes in Alabama in 197119701972

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.