Alabama

Storm History: Elmore County, Alabama

471 episodes, 673 events since 1956

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Elmore 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
673
Deaths
12
Injuries
70
Damage
$73 million
Episodes
471

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
Tornado184744$63 million
Hail17701$945,000
Thunderstorm Wind11314$781,000
Flash Flood8301$7.3 million
Drought6700
Lightning610$106,000
Heavy Snow600
Heat5114
Winter Storm525$45,000
Flood400$15,000
Strong Wind401$17,000
Tropical Storm400$235,000
Cold/Wind Chill300$1.0 million
Funnel Cloud300
Frost/Freeze200
Excessive Heat200
High Wind100$2,000
Heavy Rain100
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill100
Winter Weather100
Ice Storm100

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 Elmore County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Elmore CountyEvery warning in Elmore 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.