Alabama

Storm History: St. Clair County, Alabama

400 episodes, 559 events since 1963

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in St. Clair 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
559
Deaths
45
Injuries
284
Damage
$292 million
Episodes
400

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
Tornado16144278$288 million
Hail14602$194,000
Thunderstorm Wind11002$949,000
Flash Flood5810$1.9 million
Drought3700
Winter Storm700$41,000
Heat502
Heavy Snow500
Ice Storm400$45,000
Flood400$2,000
Strong Wind400$19,000
Cold/Wind Chill300$1.0 million
Tropical Storm300$142,000
Funnel Cloud300
Winter Weather300
Frost/Freeze200
Heavy Rain100
Lightning100$20,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill100
Excessive Heat100

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 St. Clair County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in St. Clair CountyEvery warning in St. Clair 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.