Storms in Alabama in 1973

186 events in 53 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Alabama in 1973, 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 1973 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: 186
Deaths: 10
Injuries: 404
Damage: $227 million
Episodes: 53

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	101	0	0
Tornado	53	10	404	$227 million
Hail	32	0	0

Every episode, month by month

January 1973

February 1973

Damaging Wind in Alabama, February 8, 19731 event

March 1973

April 1973

May 1973

June 1973

July 1973

August 1973

October 1973

Hail and Damaging Wind in Alabama, October 2, 19731.75 in hail · 2 events

November 1973

December 1973

Every year in Alabama Every state in 1973 Tornadoes in Alabama in 1973 1972 1974

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.