Tornadoes · United States · Alabama

2005 tornadoes in Alabama

81 tornadoes touched down in Alabama in 2005, 130 percent above the average of the record for the state. None of them killed anybody.

2004 2006 The whole country in 2005

The rating scale

Tracks are drawn in the color of the rating. The Fujita scale rates the damage rather than measuring the wind: the speeds are what that damage is taken to imply.

F040 to 72 mph
Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.
F173 to 112 mph
Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.
F2113 to 157 mph
Considerable damage. Roofs torn off well-built houses, frame homes shifted on their foundations, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, cars lifted off the ground.
F3158 to 206 mph
Severe damage. Whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned, trees debarked, heavy cars lifted and thrown.
F4207 to 260 mph
Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.
F5261 to 318 mph
Incredible damage. Strong frame houses swept off their foundations, car-sized missiles thrown more than 100 meters, steel-reinforced concrete badly damaged, high-rise buildings deformed.
Unrated
The survey recorded a tornado but could not put a number on it, most often because it crossed open country and damaged nothing a rating can be read from.

Every tornado in Alabama in 2005

January 7 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
January 7	11:12 PM CST	F0	Hale	0.8	75			$30,000

March 13 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 13	9:54 PM CST	F0	Pickens	7.0	150			$180,000

March 22 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 22	12:13 PM CST	F2	Houston	3.0	200		4	$750,000

April 6 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 6	5:51 PM CDT	F0	Pickens	1.5	50			$50,000

April 22 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
April 22	6:59 PM CDT	F0	DeKalb	0.2	60
April 22	7:01 PM CDT	F0	Cherokee	0.4	75	$4,000
April 22	7:03 PM CDT	F0	Cherokee	0.9	75	$20,000

April 30 11 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
April 30	3:05 AM CDT	F1	Walker	0.6	50		$120,000
April 30	4:16 AM CDT	F0	Tuscaloosa	6.9	100		$100,000
April 30	5:04 AM CDT	F1	Shelby	11.6	100		$400,000
April 30	5:22 AM CDT	F1	Shelby	2.2	150		$200,000
April 30	6:14 AM CDT	F1	Tallapoosa	17.3	200		$80,000
April 30	6:14 AM CDT	F1	Clay	10.6	200		$80,000
April 30	6:26 AM CDT	F1	Randolph	2.7	200		$20,000
April 30	6:52 AM CDT	F1	Lowndes	1.6	50	1	$110,000
April 30	7:20 AM CDT	F0	Crenshaw	4.0	200		$150,000
April 30	7:54 AM CDT	F0	Bullock	12.6	125		$40,000
April 30	8:12 AM CDT	F1	Barbour	10.0	75		$40,000

May 31 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
May 31	6:10 PM CDT	F0	Covington	1.0	20	$40,000
May 31	6:30 PM CDT	F0	Crenshaw	0.2	20	$10,000
May 31	7:05 PM CDT	F0	Covington	1.0	20	$10,000

July 6 17 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
July 6	4:00 AM CDT	F0	Mobile	0.5	30		$50,000
July 6	4:53 AM CDT	F0	Mobile	0.5	30		$20,000
July 6	6:20 AM CDT	F0	Washington	0.5	30		$10,000
July 6	6:25 AM CDT	F0	Clarke	0.5	30		$10,000
July 6	7:20 AM CDT	F0	Escambia	0.5	30		$10,000
July 6	10:45 AM CDT	F0	Covington	0.5	30		$10,000
July 6	10:57 AM CDT	F0	Covington	1.0	30		$10,000
July 6	1:27 PM CDT	F1	Autauga	0.3	30		$10,000
July 6	1:36 PM CDT	F0	Autauga	0.2	25		$3,000
July 6	1:42 PM CDT	F0	Montgomery	7.6	30		$20,000
July 6	1:55 PM CDT	F0	Macon	5.6	150		$30,000
July 6	2:17 PM CDT	F0	Elmore	1.3	75		$40,000
July 6	2:34 PM CDT	F1	Macon	0.1	25	1	$50,000
July 6	2:56 PM CDT	F0	Autauga	0.2	25		$2,000
July 6	3:34 PM CDT	F0	Tallapoosa	0.1	10
July 6	3:34 PM CDT	F0	Chambers	0.1	10
July 6	3:40 PM CDT	F0	Lee	1.2	200		$30,000

August 28 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
August 28	3:54 PM CDT	F0	Mobile	1.0	30	$10,000
August 28	7:04 PM CDT	F0	Baldwin	0.5	30	$4,000
August 28	7:22 PM CDT	F0	Mobile	0.5	30	$10,000

August 29 7 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
August 29	7:30 AM CDT	F0	Escambia	2.0	30	$10,000
August 29	1:55 PM CDT	F1	Tallapoosa	3.3	300	$70,000
August 29	3:16 PM CDT	F0	Montgomery	6.0	300	$190,000
August 29	3:30 PM CDT	F0	Bullock	0.1	25	$1,000
August 29	3:53 PM CDT	F1	Calhoun	1.5	30	$120,000
August 29	4:19 PM CDT	F0	Macon	3.0	400	$30,000
August 29	5:41 PM CDT	F0	Russell	0.1	25	$1,000

September 25 23 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
September 25	5:00 AM CDT	F0	Monroe	2.2	50		$80,000
September 25	1:01 PM CDT	F0	Lamar	0.1	25		$1,000
September 25	2:04 PM CDT	F0	Pickens	5.2	30		$4,000
September 25	2:22 PM CDT	F1	Lamar	6.2	300		$140,000
September 25	2:30 PM CDT	F1	Marion	2.5	40		$10,000
September 25	2:54 PM CDT	F0	Winston	0.8	50		$30,000
September 25	2:55 PM CDT	F0	Tuscaloosa	1.6	80		$40,000
September 25	2:57 PM CDT	F1	Winston	2.5	150		$20,000
September 25	3:00 PM CDT	F0	Fayette	0.1	20
September 25	3:05 PM CDT	F0	Tuscaloosa	0.8	50		$20,000
September 25	3:06 PM CDT	F0	Winston	0.5	30		$3,000
September 25	3:39 PM CDT	F0	Pickens	0.3	25		$2,000
September 25	3:54 PM CDT	F0	Greene	0.1	25
September 25	3:55 PM CDT	F1	Tuscaloosa	13.8	100		$10,000
September 25	3:55 PM CDT	F0	Tuscaloosa	0.2	25
September 25	4:05 PM CDT	F1	Tuscaloosa	6.7	150	2	$250,000
September 25	4:19 PM CDT	F0	Tuscaloosa	5.8	100		$20,000
September 25	4:24 PM CDT	F0	Tuscaloosa	5.0	60		$10,000
September 25	5:37 PM CDT	F1	Greene	6.0	250		$250,000
September 25	5:52 PM CDT	F0	Tuscaloosa	1.2	60		$60,000
September 25	5:59 PM CDT	F1	Tuscaloosa	4.8	125		$200,000
September 25	6:14 PM CDT	F0	Tuscaloosa	0.1	10
September 25	9:42 PM CDT	F0	Sumter	2.8	50		$20,000

September 26 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
September 26	5:17 AM CDT	F0	Monroe	2.0	100			$200,000

November 14 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
November 14	4:30 PM CST	F0	Winston	0.1	20

November 15 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
November 15	6:30 PM CST	F0	Lamar	0.1	30			$20,000
November 15	8:30 PM CST	F0	Cullman	0.3	25			$40,000

November 28 6 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
November 28	2:10 PM CST	F0	Jefferson	0.1	30	$20,000
November 28	2:40 PM CST	F0	Jefferson	0.4	75	$40,000
November 28	4:53 PM CST	F0	Dallas	5.8	50	$30,000
November 28	6:41 PM CST	F0	Autauga	5.4	150	$30,000
November 28	7:30 PM CST	F0	Elmore	0.1	30	$10,000
November 28	7:44 PM CST	F1	Coosa	0.4	150	$20,000

Nearby

Every tornado in Alabama since 1950 Warnings in force in Alabama The live radar over Alabama

What this means

Ratings are the survey's, read off the damage rather than measured; the rating scale is above. Tornado counts rise through the record as reporting improved, so a year in the 1950s is not comparable with one today except for the strongest tornadoes, which were always noticed.

Sources

NOAA Storm Prediction Center tornado database, 1950-2025, the official record kept by NOAA's Storm Prediction Center.