Alabama

Storms in Alabama in 2020

1,353 events in 135 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Alabama in 2020, with each episode’s narrative and every event in it. From 1996 the record holds 48 kinds of event with each office’s narrative; before that, tornadoes, hail and thunderstorm wind only, and before 1955 tornadoes alone.

Alabama in 2020 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

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The year

Events
1,353
Deaths
13
Injuries
32
Damage
$315 million
Episodes
135

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 Wind90010$126,000
Flash Flood11603$531,000
Tornado82623$880,000
Hail6700$78,000
Tropical Storm5702$1.0 million
Flood4100$255,000
Strong Wind2421$72,000
High Wind1200$3,000
Storm Surge/Tide1100
Heat1100
Winter Weather800
Lightning603
Hurricane (Typhoon)630$312 million
Heavy Rain500
Frost/Freeze500
Rip Current110
Funnel Cloud100

Every episode, month by month

January 2020

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November 2020

December 2020

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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.