Hail, Greene
- When
- March 12, 4:40 PM CST
- Where
- Greene County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 32.830, -87.880
Tornadoes and Hail in Alabama, March 12, 1976
6 tornado, 1 hail, 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
- 0
- Injuries
- 23
- Property damage
- $5.5 million
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 7
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
6 tornado, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Sumter
- When
- March 12, 4:50 PM CST
- Where
- Sumter County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 150 yd
- Injuries
- 2 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 32.820, -88.170
Tornado, Marengo
- When
- March 12, 8:27 PM CST
- Where
- Marengo County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 18.4 mi
- Path width
- 200 yd
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 32.380, -87.880
Tornado, Autauga
- When
- March 12, 8:30 PM CST
- Where
- Autauga County
- Rating
- F3
- Path length
- 16.5 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Injuries
- 4 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $2.5 million
- Coordinates
- 32.580, -86.920
Tornado, Elmore
- When
- March 12, 9:20 PM CST
- Where
- Elmore County
- Rating
- F3
- Path length
- 4.9 mi
- Path width
- 400 yd
- Injuries
- 15 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $2.5 million
- Coordinates
- 32.620, -86.070
Tornado, Dallas
- When
- March 12, 10:30 PM CST
- Where
- Dallas County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 32.350, -86.900
Tornado, Chilton
- When
- March 12, 10:50 PM CST
- Where
- Chilton County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 32.730, -86.470
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- 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.
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The same day elsewhere
More
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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: 9979495, 9979496, 9979497, 9979498, 9979499, 9979500, 9979501.