Alabama

Storm History: Greene County, Alabama

210 episodes, 246 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Greene 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
246
Deaths
2
Injuries
13
Damage
$20 million
Episodes
210

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
Tornado68010$9.4 million
Hail5901$2.0 million
Drought3400
Thunderstorm Wind2800$96,000
Flash Flood1900$95,000
Heat822
Winter Storm500$36,000
Flood500$24,000
Heavy Snow400
Cold/Wind Chill300$1.0 million
Excessive Heat300
Ice Storm200
High Wind200$5.1 million
Tropical Storm200$2.0 million
Frost/Freeze200
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill100
Strong Wind100$5,000

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 Greene County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Greene CountyEvery warning in Greene 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.