Storms in Alabama in 1989
Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Alabama in 1989, 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 1989 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
The year
- Events
- 369
- Deaths
- 21
- Injuries
- 499
- Damage
- $521 million
- Episodes
- 61
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 | 263 | 0 | 1 | |
| Hail | 81 | 0 | 0 | |
| Tornado | 25 | 21 | 498 | $521 million |
Every episode, month by month
February 1989
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Alabama, February 20, 1989
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Alabama, February 21, 1989
March 1989
- Hail in Alabama, March 4, 1989
- Tornadoes and Hail in Alabama, March 5, 1989
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Alabama, March 15, 1989
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Alabama, March 20, 1989
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Alabama, March 21, 1989
- Damaging Winds in Alabama, March 29, 1989
- Hail in Alabama, March 30, 1989
- Hail in Alabama, March 31, 1989
April 1989
- Tornado and Hail in Alabama, April 4, 1989
- Damaging Winds in Alabama, April 5, 1989
- Hail in Alabama, April 28, 1989
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, April 30, 1989
May 1989
- Damaging Winds in Alabama, May 5, 1989
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, May 7, 1989
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, May 18, 1989
- Tornado and Hail in Alabama, May 19, 1989
- Damaging Winds in Alabama, May 20, 1989
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Alabama, May 23, 1989
- Hail in Alabama, May 27, 1989
June 1989
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, June 1, 1989
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Alabama, June 2, 1989
- Damaging Winds in Alabama, June 4, 1989
- Damaging Winds in Alabama, June 5, 1989
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Alabama, June 7, 1989
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Alabama, June 8, 1989
- Damaging Winds in Alabama, June 11, 1989
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Alabama, June 12, 1989
- Damaging Winds in Alabama, June 14, 1989
- Damaging Winds in Alabama, June 15, 1989
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, June 16, 1989
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Alabama, June 18, 1989
- Damaging Winds in Alabama, June 19, 1989
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Alabama, June 21, 1989
- Damaging Winds in Alabama, June 22, 1989
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, June 26, 1989
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, June 30, 1989
July 1989
- Damaging Winds in Alabama, July 1, 1989
- Tornado in Alabama, July 2, 1989
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, July 6, 1989
- Damaging Winds in Alabama, July 11, 1989
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Alabama, July 12, 1989
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, July 13, 1989
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Alabama, July 16, 1989
- Damaging Winds in Alabama, July 19, 1989
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Alabama, July 26, 1989
- Hail in Alabama, July 29, 1989
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, July 30, 1989
August 1989
September 1989
- Damaging Winds in Alabama, September 1, 1989
- Damaging Winds in Alabama, September 2, 1989
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, September 3, 1989
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, September 12, 1989
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, September 22, 1989
October 1989
November 1989
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.