Alabama

Storm History: Barbour County, Alabama

296 episodes, 350 events since 1954

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Barbour 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
350
Deaths
0
Injuries
20
Damage
$5.9 million
Episodes
296

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
Hail9301$155,000
Tornado88012$3.7 million
Drought6000
Thunderstorm Wind5101$234,000
Flash Flood2700$771,000
Heat806
Funnel Cloud400
Tropical Storm400$77,000
Cold/Wind Chill300$1.0 million
Excessive Heat300
Strong Wind200$4,000
Heavy Snow200
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill100
Flood100$2,000
Ice Storm100
Winter Storm100
Winter Weather100

The deadliest

None recorded.

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 Barbour County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Barbour CountyEvery warning in Barbour 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.