Alabama

Storm History: Lamar County, Alabama

420 episodes, 598 events since 1957

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Lamar 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
598
Deaths
3
Injuries
23
Damage
$12 million
Episodes
420

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
Tornado154211$5.9 million
Hail14205$796,000
Thunderstorm Wind11200$1.1 million
Flash Flood9300$589,000
Drought3700
Winter Storm1100$51,000
Heat700
Heavy Snow600
Lightning517$122,000
Strong Wind500$43,000
High Wind400$355,000
Ice Storm400$200,000
Cold/Wind Chill300$1.0 million
Flood300
Tropical Storm200$1.9 million
Funnel Cloud200
Frost/Freeze200
Winter Weather200
Excessive Heat200
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill100
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 Lamar County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Lamar CountyEvery warning in Lamar 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.