Alabama

Storm History: Marion County, Alabama

447 episodes, 619 events since 1953

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Marion 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
619
Deaths
51
Injuries
509
Damage
$188 million
Episodes
447

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
Tornado17448496$180 million
Hail15500$483,000
Thunderstorm Wind12401$1.0 million
Flash Flood6700$1.4 million
Drought4000
Winter Storm1100$52,000
Heat705
Funnel Cloud700
Heavy Snow700
Ice Storm500$800,000
High Wind300$25,000
Cold/Wind Chill300$1.0 million
Lightning334$44,000
Strong Wind300$26,000
Winter Weather303
Tropical Storm200$3.1 million
Frost/Freeze200
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill100
Flood100
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 Marion County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Marion CountyEvery warning in Marion 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.