Alabama

Storm History: Pike County, Alabama

271 episodes, 338 events since 1954

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Pike 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
338
Deaths
2
Injuries
39
Damage
$9.6 million
Episodes
271

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
Tornado94019$4.8 million
Hail8001$327,000
Drought5700
Thunderstorm Wind3702$177,000
Flash Flood3500$271,000
Heat5016
Tropical Storm500$68,000
Excessive Heat400
Cold/Wind Chill300$1.0 million
Heavy Snow300
Strong Wind300$5,000
Winter Weather321
Winter Storm200$35,000
Funnel Cloud200
Heavy Rain100
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill100
High Wind100$3.0 million
Flood100$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 Pike County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Pike CountyEvery warning in Pike 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.