Alabama

Storm History: Baldwin County, Alabama

645 episodes, 959 events since 1950

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Baldwin County, Alabama: floods, hail, damaging wind, tornadoes, winter storms, heat and the rest, with the most serious on record. Events filed by forecast zone count for every county the zone covers.

The record

Events
959
Deaths
41
Injuries
137
Damage
$290 million
Episodes
645

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.

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Every year

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.

By kind of event

Counted under the kind that heads each episode.

Kind of eventEventsDeathsInjuriesDamage
Tornado236390$46 million
Hail23501$400,000
Thunderstorm Wind205018$2.4 million
Flash Flood13901$4.5 million
Lightning35717$632,000
Rip Current272710
Waterspout2500
Tropical Storm1700
Coastal Flood1300$5,000
Funnel Cloud700
Hurricane (Typhoon)630$236 million
Heavy Snow500
Flood410$15,000
Winter Storm300
Storm Surge/Tide100
Winter Weather100

The deadliest

The costliest

Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.

The largest hail

The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.

The strongest tornadoes

Every tornado in Baldwin County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Baldwin CountyEvery warning in Baldwin County since 1986Every county in Alabama

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.