Alabama

Storm History: Coosa County, Alabama

226 episodes, 269 events since 1961

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Coosa 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
269
Deaths
0
Injuries
12
Damage
$5.9 million
Episodes
226

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
Tornado7304$4.4 million
Hail7204$77,000
Drought6300
Thunderstorm Wind1703$90,000
Flash Flood1300$125,000
Winter Storm500$56,000
Heat400
Heavy Snow400
Cold/Wind Chill300$1.0 million
Tropical Storm300$140,000
Strong Wind200$2,000
Frost/Freeze200
Excessive Heat200
Heavy Rain100
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill100
Flood100$2,000
Winter Weather100
Ice Storm100
Lightning101

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 Coosa County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Coosa CountyEvery warning in Coosa 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.