Tornado, Mobile
- When
- December 11, 3:15 AM CST
- Where
- Mobile County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 30 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 31.120, -88.180
Tornadoes and Hail in Alabama, December 11, 1983
3 tornado, 3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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
- 0
- Property damage
- $75,000
- 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
3 tornado, 3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Mobile
- When
- December 11, 4:10 AM CST
- Where
- Mobile County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 31.020, -88.150
Tornado, Pickens
- When
- December 11, 5:00 PM CST
- Where
- Pickens County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 3 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 33.480, -88.150
Tornado, Tuscaloosa
- When
- December 11, 6:45 PM CST
- Where
- Tuscaloosa County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 127 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 33.300, -88.650
Hail, Tuscaloosa
- When
- December 11, 7:20 PM CST
- Where
- Tuscaloosa County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 33.220, -87.580
Hail, Jefferson
- When
- December 11, 8:11 PM CST
- Where
- Jefferson County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 33.520, -86.820
Thunderstorm Wind, Shelby
- When
- December 11, 8:40 PM CST
- Where
- Shelby County
- Coordinates
- 33.270, -86.650
What these are
- 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.
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes and Damaging Wind in Florida, December 11, 1983
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Louisiana, December 11, 1983
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, December 11, 1983
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, December 11, 1983
- Tornado in California, December 11, 1983
- Hail in Tennessee, December 11, 1983
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: 9979839, 9979840, 9979841, 9979842, 9979843, 9979844, 9979845.