Alabama

Storm History: Montgomery County, Alabama

597 episodes, 738 events since 1956

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Montgomery 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
738
Deaths
18
Injuries
179
Damage
$34 million
Episodes
597

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
Tornado178997$17 million
Hail16300$559,000
Thunderstorm Wind118023$2.4 million
Drought6900
Heat66150$150,000
Flash Flood6211$3.2 million
Cold/Wind Chill2110$1.0 million
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1600
Lightning1015$242,000
Flood700$45,000
Excessive Heat600
Heavy Rain400
Funnel Cloud300
Winter Storm300$35,000
Heavy Snow321
Tropical Storm301$375,000
High Wind220$9.1 million
Strong Wind200$2,000
Winter Weather111
Ice Storm100

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 Montgomery County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Montgomery CountyEvery warning in Montgomery 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.