Alabama

Storm History: Tallapoosa County, Alabama

400 episodes, 546 events since 1952

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Tallapoosa 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
546
Deaths
2
Injuries
57
Damage
$123 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
Hail15500$377,000
Tornado141223$119 million
Thunderstorm Wind7504$773,000
Drought7000
Flash Flood5402$665,000
Winter Storm700$56,000
Lightning702$295,000
Heat6024
Heavy Snow600
Strong Wind500$20,000
Tropical Storm402$255,000
Cold/Wind Chill300$1.0 million
Flood300$2,000
Ice Storm200$70,000
Frost/Freeze200
Excessive Heat200
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill100
High Wind100$475,000
Debris Flow100$100,000
Winter Weather100

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 Tallapoosa County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Tallapoosa CountyEvery warning in Tallapoosa 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.