Alabama

Storm History: Macon County, Alabama

255 episodes, 296 events since 1956

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Macon 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
296
Deaths
0
Injuries
13
Damage
$4.2 million
Episodes
255

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
Drought7500
Tornado71011$1.7 million
Hail7000$196,000
Thunderstorm Wind3301$469,000
Flash Flood2000$686,000
Heat501
Cold/Wind Chill300$1.0 million
Winter Storm300$35,000
Heavy Snow300
Strong Wind300$5,000
Tropical Storm300$90,000
Flood200$2,000
Excessive Heat200
Heavy Rain100
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill100
Ice Storm100

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 Macon County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Macon CountyEvery warning in Macon 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.