Alabama

Storm History: Colbert County, Alabama

801 episodes, 1,706 events since 1953

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Colbert 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
1,706
Deaths
8
Injuries
94
Damage
$44 million
Episodes
801

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
Thunderstorm Wind45910$9.0 million
Tornado362372$21 million
Hail30412$2.0 million
Flash Flood22311$3.5 million
Heat7300
Excessive Heat49012
Frost/Freeze4100
Drought3300
Strong Wind3012$6.2 million
Flood2500$19,000
Cold/Wind Chill1800$1.0 million
Winter Weather1700
Winter Storm1400$49,000
High Wind1211$134,000
Heavy Snow1000
Ice Storm800$1.2 million
Lightning802$49,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill800
Wildfire301$3,000
Heavy Rain200$50,000
Tropical Storm200
Tropical Depression200$5,000
Funnel Cloud100
Dense Fog101
Freezing Fog100

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 Colbert County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Colbert CountyEvery warning in Colbert 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.