Tornado in Alabama
Every tornado event the National Weather Service has filed in Alabama, year by year, with the most significant episodes. A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
The most significant on the map
The most significant tornado episodes in Alabama.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The record
- Events
- 3,206
- Deaths
- 692
- Injuries
- 8,468
- Damage
- $6.4 billion
Every year
The most significant
Ranked by deaths, injuries, damage and size together.
- Tornadoes and Hail in Alabama, April 27, 2011A powerful storm system crossed the Southeast United States on Wednesday, April 27, 2011, resulting in a large and deadly tornado outbreak.
- Tornadoes and Hail in Alabama, April 3, 1974
- Tornadoes and Hail in Alabama, April 27, 2011A powerful storm system roared across the Southeast United States on Wednesday, April 27, 2011. In the wake of this system, hundreds of people were left injured and/or homeless, along with approximately 100 people who lost their lives in the northern Alabama area alone.
- Tornadoes in Alabama, April 8, 1998A tornado, the second spawned from the same supercell, began in rural sections of eastern Tuscaloosa County 1.5 miles east of the Warrior River.
- Tornadoes and Hail in Alabama, November 15, 1989
- Tornadoes and Hail in Alabama, March 27, 1994A tornado began about one mile south-southwest of Ragland in St. Clair County at 1055 CST and traveled northeast at between 45 and 55 miles an hour crossing the Alabama/Georgia border about five miles northeast of Rock Run in Cherokee County.
- Tornado and Hail in Alabama, April 15, 1956
- Tornadoes and Hail in Alabama, April 4, 1977
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Alabama, March 3, 2019On the morning of Sunday March 3rd, 2019, an upper-level disturbance moved eastward from the Southern Plains into the southern Gulf Coast States.
- Tornadoes and Hail in Alabama, May 27, 1973
- Tornado in Alabama, December 16, 2000The tornado began in southwestern Tuscaloosa County on the west side of the Black Warrior River. Traveling in a northeasterly direction the tornado moved from a rural, unpopulated area of the Black Warrior River into an area of homes south of Shelton State Community College.
- Tornado in Alabama, April 18, 1953
- Tornadoes and Hail in Alabama, March 1, 2007Severe thunderstorms developed ahead of a warm front over the Florida Panhandle and moved northeast across southeast Alabama and into extreme southwest Georgia during the afternoon hours of March 1.
- Tornadoes and Hail in Alabama, February 16, 1995A small tornado touched down about six miles east of Hamilton along U.S. Highway 278. The tornado travelled on a track just slightly north of east for about six miles running along and crossing U.S. Highway 278 twice.
- Tornadoes in Alabama, January 24, 1964
- Tornadoes in Alabama, May 1, 1953
- Tornadoes in Alabama, November 10, 2002The Saragossa Tornado was the fourth tornado to occur in Alabama and the longest track of the severe weather episode. It began in Fayette County, just east of the Sipsey River about 6 miles north-northeast of the city of Fayette at 8:15 pm.
- Tornadoes and Damaging Wind in Alabama, January 13, 1972
- Tornadoes and Hail in Alabama, May 3, 1984
- Tornadoes and Hail in Alabama, November 18, 1957
- Tornadoes and Hail in Alabama, January 12, 2023Numerous strong to severe thunderstorms impacted Central Alabama during the morning and afternoon hours of Thursday, January 12th, 2023. Several supercell thunderstorms spawned multiple tornadoes which caused significant damage in many areas.
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Alabama, February 6, 2008The WFO Huntsville County Warning Area experienced the worst tornado outbreak in 19 years on February 6, 2008.
- Tornado in Alabama, April 24, 1955
- Tornado in Alabama, March 22, 1952
- Tornadoes and Flash Flood in Alabama, March 25, 2021A potent storm system affected Central Alabama on Thursday, March 25th. A highly-sheared environment combined with increasing instability produced numerous tornadic thunderstorms.
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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.