Alabama

Storm History: Perry County, Alabama

203 episodes, 240 events since 1960

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Perry 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
240
Deaths
1
Injuries
6
Damage
$38 million
Episodes
203

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
Tornado8005$31 million
Hail4800$540,000
Drought4100
Thunderstorm Wind2301$69,000
Flash Flood1400$101,000
Heat700
Winter Storm410$23,000
Cold/Wind Chill300$1.0 million
Heavy Snow300
High Wind300$3.7 million
Tropical Storm300$1.2 million
Excessive Heat300
Flood200$1,000
Frost/Freeze200
Heavy Rain100
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill100
Strong Wind100$2,000
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 Perry County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Perry CountyEvery warning in Perry 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.