Strong Wind in Alabama

Events

473

Deaths

12

Injuries

26

Damage

$33 million

• Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Alabama, March 3, 20235 deaths · 4 injured · $790,000 · EF1 · 46 eventsA prolonged damaging gradient wind event combined with an intense squall line during the daylight hours of the 3rd to produce widespread wind damage and impacts to the region. Numerous power outages resulted from power poles being snapped and power lines being brought down.
• Tornadoes and Flash Flood in Alabama, April 10, 20096 injured · $145,000 · EF3 · 128 eventsA strong upper level storm moving across the Mississipi Valley brought a dry line and cold front into north Alabama during the afternoon and early evening hours.
• Damaging Winds and Strong Wind in Alabama, March 30, 20221 death · 3 injured · $7.8 million · 81 kt wind · 24 eventsA powerful low pressure system moved northeast from the central Plains into the Great Lakes, bringing a strong cold front through the Mississippi and Tennessee Valleys.
• Strong Wind in Alabama, November 30, 20202 deaths · 1 injured · 1 eventTwo people were killed just before dawn while driving on a road in Marshall County. A tree tragically fell onto their vehicle causing their deaths. Gusty northwest winds of 15-25 mph with gusts over 30 mph were reported.
• Tornadoes and Hail in Alabama, March 18, 20139 injured · $281,000 · EF2 · 57 eventsAn active severe weather episode was produced by two quasi-linear convective systems.
• Tornadoes and Hail in Alabama, February 15 to 16, 20161 injured · $1.7 million · EF2 · 38 eventsSevere thunderstorms developed across southwest and south central Alabama during the afternoon and evening of February 15th as a strong upper level disturbance moved from the southern Plains to the Tennessee Valley.
• Tornadoes and Hail in Alabama, April 10, 20093 injured · $1.2 million · EF1 · 89 eventsA powerful spring storm system, including a deepening surface low and a strong cold front, brought widespread severe weather to central Alabama. Damaging wind gusts, large hail, and 8 tornadoes were reported across the area.
• Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Alabama, April 6, 20251 death · $500 · EF1 · 22 eventsDeep-layer ridging over the Southeast United States held up a trough over the Central United States for the first few days of April, leading to a prolonged and significant severe weather and flooding event from Texas to Ohio and West Virginia along a stalled boundary.
• Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Alabama, December 9 to 11, 2008$505,000 · EF2 · 24 eventsA developing strong storm system across the Southeastern United States caused several severe thunderstorms and locally heavy rainfall. Cold air surging in on the back side of the storm system caused the rain to turn over to snow, some of which became heavy.
• Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Alabama, April 12 to 13, 2020$29,000 · EF2 · 79 eventsHeavy rainfall occurred across the entire NWS Huntsville County Warning area, as well as damage from thunderstorm winds and a few tornadoes.
• Flash Flooding and Strong Wind in Alabama, January 8 to 9, 20241 death · 2 injured · $13,000 · 9 eventsA line of thunderstorms moved across Central Alabama early on January 9, bringing heavy rainfall across much of the area.
• Strong Wind in Alabama, May 11 to 12, 20081 death · 1 injured · $25,000 · 1 eventA tight pressure gradient behind a strong, departing cold front caused winds to increase to around 20 mph with gusts between 35 and 40 mph across northern Alabama.
• Damaging Winds and High Wind in Alabama, March 3, 20231 death · $10,000 · 50 kt wind · 12 eventsA powerful upper level storm system along with a rapidly deepening surface low over Kentucky produced a QLCS over Mississippi that entered west Alabama during the morning hours on March 3rd.
• Damaging Winds and Strong Wind in Alabama, June 21 to 23, 20201 death · 50 kt wind · 10 eventsA broad upper trough covered the eastern United States for several days. The trough axis remained just west of Alabama and kept Alabama in moist and unstable air mass. A series of upper level disturbances rotated through the base of the trough and triggered severe thunderstorms.
• Strong Wind in Alabama, February 17, 2022$21 million · 5 eventsA strong pressure gradient in advance of a cold front helped to produce strong and gusty south winds on the 18th. This resulted in multiple trees and power lines being knocked down across the area, causing a few spotty power outages.
• Strong Wind in Alabama, March 25 to 26, 20241 death · $5,000 · 3 eventsStrong southeasterly gradient winds gusting to 35-45 mph across Central Alabama in advance of an approaching cold front resulted in sporadic tree damage and isolated structural damage. In Bibb County, one person was killed after being hit by a falling tree limb.
• Hail and High Wind in Alabama, April 12 to 13, 20095 injured · $996,000 · 50 kt wind · 20 eventsAn intense atmospheric gravity wave brought a period of high winds to central Alabama late in the evening on April 12, lasting into the early morning hours on April 13.
• Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Alabama, September 4 to 7, 20112 injured · $284,000 · EF0 · 70 eventsA tropical depression developed in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday, September 1 and strengthened as it remained nearly stationary becoming Tropical Storm Lee Friday afternoon, September 2.
• Flash Flood and Hail in Alabama, April 4, 2011$601,000 · 1.5 in hail · 66 eventsA strong cold front produced a squall line across the Ohio, Tennessee and lower Mississippi Valleys during the afternoon and evening hours of the 4th. Ahead of the front, windy conditions developed with wind gusts of 30 to 40 mph.
• Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Alabama, April 2 to 3, 20092 injured · $272,000 · EF1 · 36 eventsA powerful low pressure system tracked from Arkansas into the Ohio Valley, lifting a warm front north during the afternoon, and pushing a cold front during the evening hours.
• Strong Wind in Alabama, December 20 to 21, 2007$6.0 million · 6 eventsDamaging non-thunderstorm winds, likely caused by what is known in meteorological terms a gravity wave, occurred in two main swaths in north central and northeast Alabama. Sustained winds of 30 to 40 mph were observed, with gusts around 50 mph.
• Hail and Damaging Winds in Alabama, July 5, 2012$2.6 million · 1 in hail · 18 eventsAn area of scattered strong to severe thunderstorms developed in the afternoon across northwest Alabama and moved east and northeast across north and into northeast Alabama.
• High Wind and Strong Wind in Alabama, April 12 to 13, 2009$2.6 million · 56 kt wind · 8 eventsA wave of damaging winds produced widespread and signficant damage to portions of north central and northeast Alabama during the late evening hours of the 12th into the early morning hours of the 13th.
• Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Alabama, October 26, 20101 injured · $311,000 · EF1 · 12 eventsA potent upper level trough of low pressure and strong upper jet streak pushed through the Tennessee Valley on the 26th. Unseasonably high temperatures in the upper 70s to lower 80s and dew points in the upper 60s to near 70 produced an unstable environment.
• Tornado and Damaging Winds in Alabama, January 30, 2013$114,000 · EF1 · 28 eventsA long-lived quasi-linear convective system (QLCS) tracked rapidly eastward across Tennessee through the early morning hours of the 30th. Numerous tornadoes impacted middle Tennessee with this line, and one EF-1 tornado also struck Winston into Cullman Counties in north Alabama.

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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.