Alabama

Storm History: Wilcox County, Alabama

141 episodes, 169 events since 1957

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Wilcox 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
169
Deaths
1
Injuries
4
Damage
$3.0 million
Episodes
141

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
Tornado4214$2.6 million
Thunderstorm Wind4200$256,000
Hail4000$21,000
Flash Flood2300$129,000
Winter Storm700
Tropical Storm300
Hurricane (Typhoon)300
Heavy Snow300
Heat200
Drought200
Sleet100
Coastal Flood100

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 Wilcox County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Wilcox CountyEvery warning in Wilcox 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.