Alabama

Storm History: Choctaw County, Alabama

281 episodes, 356 events since 1953

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Choctaw 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
356
Deaths
4
Injuries
9
Damage
$21 million
Episodes
281

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
Tornado10129$17 million
Thunderstorm Wind9900$998,000
Hail8300$129,000
Flash Flood4020$2.6 million
Hurricane (Typhoon)500$90,000
Ice Storm500$10,000
Tropical Storm400$25,000
Winter Storm300
Lightning300$65,000
Heavy Snow300
Winter Weather300
Drought300
Heat200
Funnel Cloud100
Sleet100

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 Choctaw County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Choctaw CountyEvery warning in Choctaw 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.