Alabama

Storm History: Chilton County, Alabama

341 episodes, 428 events since 1953

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Chilton 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
428
Deaths
10
Injuries
46
Damage
$11 million
Episodes
341

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
Tornado114645$5.1 million
Hail10201$189,000
Thunderstorm Wind7600$472,000
Drought5200
Flash Flood3510$953,000
Lightning800$51,000
Heat710
Winter Storm620$56,000
Heavy Snow500
Strong Wind400$26,000
Cold/Wind Chill300$4.0 million
Tropical Storm300$180,000
Funnel Cloud200
Frost/Freeze200
Ice Storm200
Excessive Heat200
High Wind100$10,000
Heavy Rain100
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill100
Flood100$2,000
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 Chilton County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Chilton CountyEvery warning in Chilton 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.