Storm History: St. Clair County, Alabama
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.
Every year
By kind of event
Counted under the kind that heads each episode.
| Kind of event | Events | Deaths | Injuries | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado | 161 | 44 | 278 | $288 million |
| Hail | 146 | 0 | 2 | $194,000 |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 110 | 0 | 2 | $949,000 |
| Flash Flood | 58 | 1 | 0 | $1.9 million |
| Drought | 37 | 0 | 0 | |
| Winter Storm | 7 | 0 | 0 | $41,000 |
| Heat | 5 | 0 | 2 | |
| Heavy Snow | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
| Ice Storm | 4 | 0 | 0 | $45,000 |
| Flood | 4 | 0 | 0 | $2,000 |
| Strong Wind | 4 | 0 | 0 | $19,000 |
| Cold/Wind Chill | 3 | 0 | 0 | $1.0 million |
| Tropical Storm | 3 | 0 | 0 | $142,000 |
| Funnel Cloud | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Winter Weather | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Frost/Freeze | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Heavy Rain | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Lightning | 1 | 0 | 0 | $20,000 |
| Extreme Cold/Wind Chill | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Excessive Heat | 1 | 0 | 0 |
The deadliest
The costliest
Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.
- Tornado, April 27, 2011
- Tornado, March 27, 1994
- Tornado, May 27, 1973
- Tornado, January 10, 1975
- Tornado, February 3, 1990
- Tornado, April 8, 1998
- Cold/Wind Chill, March 7, 1996
- Flash Flood, May 7, 2003
- Tornado, April 4, 1977
- Tornado, February 26, 2008
- Tornado, April 15, 1994
- Tornado, November 24, 2001
- Flash Flood, November 24, 2004
- Tornado, November 24, 2001
- Tornado, March 16, 1973
- Thunderstorm Wind, February 27, 1999
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 28, 1997
- Tornado, December 16, 2000
- Tornado, May 1, 2009
- Flash Flood, September 16, 2004
The largest hail
The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.
- Flash Flood, May 9, 2024
- Hail, April 25, 1988
- Hail, July 31, 1986
- Hail, April 29, 2016
- Hail, March 31, 2015
- Hail, June 9, 2024
- Flash Flood, May 16, 2023
- Hail, June 25, 2023
- Hail, April 24, 2021
- Hail, July 1, 2012
- Hail, July 19, 2002
- Hail, April 10, 2025
- Hail, August 16, 2024
- Hail, March 27, 2017
- Hail, June 15, 2016
The strongest tornadoes
- Tornado, April 27, 2011
- Tornado, April 4, 1977
- Tornado, March 27, 1994
- Tornado, March 6, 1967
- Tornado, May 27, 1973
- Tornado, January 10, 1975
- Tornado, April 28, 1964
- Tornado, April 5, 1985
- Tornado, January 10, 2008
- Tornado, January 23, 2012
- Tornado, April 28, 2014
- Tornado, March 19, 2018
- Tornado, March 25, 2021
- Tornado, April 8, 1998
- Tornado, April 29, 1963
Every episode, newest first
- Hail, June 1, 2026
- Thunderstorm Wind, March 15, 2026
- Tornado, February 26, 2026
- Tornado, January 9, 2026
- Tornado, November 25, 2025
- Heat, July 29, 2025
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 29, 2025
- Flash Flood, June 26, 2025
- Flash Flood, June 16, 2025
- Hail, June 6, 2025
- Tornado, May 20, 2025
- Hail, May 17, 2025
- Tornado, May 1, 2025
- Hail, April 10, 2025
- Thunderstorm Wind, March 4, 2025
- Tornado, February 15, 2025
- Flash Flood, February 12, 2025
- Winter Storm, January 10, 2025
- Tornado, December 28, 2024
- Drought, November 1, 2024
- Flash Flood, September 12, 2024
- Hail, August 16, 2024
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 2, 2024
- Hail, June 9, 2024
- Tornado, May 27, 2024
- Hail, May 18, 2024
- Flash Flood, May 9, 2024
- Flash Flood, February 11, 2024
- Drought, January 1, 2024
- Drought, December 1, 2023
- Drought, November 1, 2023
- Drought, October 24, 2023
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 12, 2023
- Excessive Heat, August 11, 2023
- Hail, August 11, 2023
- Flash Flood, August 3, 2023
- Flash Flood, July 1, 2023
- Hail, June 25, 2023
- Tornado, June 11, 2023
- Flash Flood, May 16, 2023
- Thunderstorm Wind, March 3, 2023
- Tornado, January 3, 2023
- Tornado, November 29, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 15, 2022
- Flash Flood, July 21, 2022
- Tornado, February 17, 2022
- Heavy Snow, January 2, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 31, 2021
- Tornado, May 2, 2021
- Hail, April 24, 2021
- Tornado, March 25, 2021
- Tropical Storm, October 28, 2020
- Hail, August 10, 2020
- Hail, July 12, 2020
- Flash Flood, June 29, 2020
- Tornado, April 12, 2020
- Tornado, February 5, 2020
- Tornado, January 11, 2020
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 27, 2019
- Hail, May 16, 2019
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 18, 2019
- Tornado, March 14, 2019
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 3, 2018
- Hail, June 28, 2018
- Flash Flood, June 10, 2018
- Tornado, March 19, 2018
- Drought, February 1, 2018
- Drought, January 23, 2018
- Winter Storm, December 8, 2017
- Flash Flood, August 10, 2017
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 17, 2017
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 1, 2017
- Tornado, June 22, 2017
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 15, 2017
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 28, 2017
- Tornado, April 5, 2017
- Drought, April 1, 2017
- Hail, March 27, 2017
- Drought, March 1, 2017
- Drought, February 1, 2017
- Tornado, January 19, 2017
- Drought, January 1, 2017
- Drought, December 1, 2016
- Drought, November 1, 2016
- Drought, October 1, 2016
- Drought, September 1, 2016
- Drought, August 1, 2016
- Drought, July 1, 2016
- Hail, June 15, 2016
- Hail, April 29, 2016
- Hail, December 30, 2015
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 14, 2015
- Flash Flood, June 1, 2015
- Tornado, April 19, 2015
- Hail, March 31, 2015
- Heavy Snow, February 25, 2015
- Winter Weather, February 20, 2015
- Hail, June 6, 2014
- Tornado, April 28, 2014
- Tornado, February 20, 2014
- Ice Storm, February 11, 2014
- Winter Storm, January 28, 2014
- Cold/Wind Chill, January 6, 2014
- Hail, July 17, 2013
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 17, 2013
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 16, 2013
- Flash Flood, May 17, 2013
- Tornado, March 18, 2013
- Flood, January 14, 2013
- Flash Flood, August 9, 2012
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 10, 2012
- Hail, July 5, 2012
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 2, 2012
- Heat, July 1, 2012
- Hail, July 1, 2012
- Heat, June 28, 2012
- Hail, April 5, 2012
- Tornado, March 23, 2012
- Tornado, March 2, 2012
- Tornado, January 23, 2012
- Tornado, September 4, 2011
- Flash Flood, July 20, 2011
- Flash Flood, June 24, 2011
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 20, 2011
- Hail, June 15, 2011
- Hail, May 25, 2011
- Tornado, April 27, 2011
- Tornado, March 26, 2011
- Tornado, February 24, 2011
- Ice Storm, January 9, 2011
- Winter Weather, December 26, 2010
- Heavy Snow, December 25, 2010
- Winter Weather, December 15, 2010
- Tornado, October 26, 2010
- Hail, June 19, 2010
- Flash Flood, May 20, 2010
- Heavy Snow, February 12, 2010
- Flood, November 9, 2009
- Tornado, September 16, 2009
- Flash Flood, June 12, 2009
- Hail, June 11, 2009
- Tornado, May 1, 2009
- Tornado, April 19, 2009
- Tornado, April 10, 2009
- Tornado, April 2, 2009
- Hail, April 1, 2009
- Tornado, February 18, 2009
- Strong Wind, February 11, 2009
- Flash Flood, January 6, 2009
- Tornado, December 9, 2008
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 8, 2008
- Tornado, August 23, 2008
- Hail, August 2, 2008
- Drought, August 1, 2008
- Hail, July 29, 2008
- Hail, July 5, 2008
- Drought, July 1, 2008
- Drought, June 1, 2008
- Hail, June 1, 2008
- Hail, May 20, 2008
- Tornado, May 10, 2008
- Drought, May 1, 2008
- Tornado, April 11, 2008
- Tornado, April 4, 2008
- Drought, April 1, 2008
- Drought, March 1, 2008
- Tornado, February 26, 2008
- Drought, February 1, 2008
- Tornado, January 10, 2008
- Drought, January 1, 2008
- Strong Wind, December 20, 2007
- Strong Wind, December 15, 2007
- Drought, December 1, 2007
- Drought, November 1, 2007
- Drought, October 1, 2007
- Drought, September 1, 2007
- Heat, August 8, 2007
- Drought, August 1, 2007
- Hail, July 20, 2007
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 10, 2007
- Drought, July 1, 2007
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 30, 2007
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 28, 2007
- Drought, June 1, 2007
- Drought, May 1, 2007
- Frost/Freeze, April 7, 2007
- Drought, April 1, 2007
- Drought, March 27, 2007
- Funnel Cloud, September 22, 2006
- Hail, September 22, 2006
- Drought, September 1, 2006
- Drought, August 1, 2006
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 29, 2006
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 29, 2006
- Hail, April 20, 2006
- Hail, April 20, 2006
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 20, 2006
- Hail, April 19, 2006
- Hail, April 19, 2006
- Funnel Cloud, April 19, 2006
- Hail, April 19, 2006
- Hail, April 19, 2006
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 19, 2006
- Hail, April 19, 2006
- Hail, April 19, 2006
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 19, 2006
- Hail, April 19, 2006
- Funnel Cloud, April 19, 2006
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 8, 2006
- Hail, April 3, 2006
- Hail, March 13, 2006
- Strong Wind, March 9, 2006
- Flash Flood, February 6, 2006
- Hail, December 28, 2005
- Tropical Storm, August 29, 2005
- Flash Flood, July 19, 2005
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 19, 2005
- Flash Flood, July 14, 2005
- Tropical Storm, July 10, 2005
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 8, 2005
- Hail, May 20, 2005
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 30, 2005
- Hail, April 22, 2005
- Hail, April 22, 2005
- Hail, March 30, 2005
- Ice Storm, January 28, 2005
- Thunderstorm Wind, December 7, 2004
- Flash Flood, November 24, 2004
- Tornado, November 24, 2004
- Hail, October 19, 2004
- Thunderstorm Wind, October 19, 2004
- Flash Flood, September 16, 2004
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 26, 2004
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 14, 2004
- Hail, July 7, 2004
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 6, 2004
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 22, 2004
- Hail, May 18, 2004
- Flash Flood, February 6, 2004
- Thunderstorm Wind, November 18, 2003
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 27, 2003
- Flash Flood, July 1, 2003
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 11, 2003
- Flood, May 18, 2003
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 16, 2003
- Tornado, May 7, 2003
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 7, 2003
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 7, 2003
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 7, 2003
- Flash Flood, May 7, 2003
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.