Alabama

Storm History: Lowndes County, Alabama

247 episodes, 289 events since 1957

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Lowndes 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
289
Deaths
2
Injuries
45
Damage
$7.5 million
Episodes
247

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
Tornado77041$1.8 million
Hail6900$110,000
Drought5200
Thunderstorm Wind3704$272,000
Flash Flood2000$153,000
Heat610
Excessive Heat500
Heavy Snow400
Cold/Wind Chill300$1.0 million
Winter Storm300$35,000
Flood300$17,000
Tropical Storm300$360,000
Strong Wind200$22,000
Funnel Cloud100
Heavy Rain100
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill100
High Wind100$3.7 million
Ice Storm110

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 Lowndes County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Lowndes CountyEvery warning in Lowndes 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.