Tornadoes · United States · Alabama

2006 tornadoes in Alabama

69 tornadoes touched down in Alabama in 2006, 96 percent above the average of the record for the state. They killed 1 people and injured 13.

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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 2006

January 13 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
January 13	10:01 AM CST	F1	Conecuh	1.0	880	1		$500,000
January 13	12:00 PM CST	F0	Dale	1.0	50			$500,000
January 13	12:20 PM CST	F0	Barbour	8.5	100		1	$250,000
January 13	12:45 PM CST	F0	Henry	0.2	50			$100,000

February 2 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
February 2	3:20 PM CST	F0	Monroe	0.5	30			$30,000
February 2	3:25 PM CST	F0	Conecuh	0.5	30			$10,000

March 13 12 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
March 13	4:04 PM CST	F0	Lamar	0.1	25	$10,000
March 13	4:45 PM CST	F0	Fayette	1.1	50	$30,000
March 13	4:55 PM CST	F1	Fayette	1.6	50	$10,000
March 13	5:15 PM CST	F0	Lamar	2.6	75	$20,000
March 13	5:39 PM CST	F1	Walker	1.3	25	$30,000
March 13	5:43 PM CST	F0	Fayette	3.4	30	$3,000
March 13	5:54 PM CST	F0	Tuscaloosa	0.1	20
March 13	5:56 PM CST	F0	Cullman	0.1	20
March 13	6:15 PM CST	F0	Blount	0.1	25	$10,000
March 13	6:45 PM CST	F0	Cullman	0.1	50
March 13	6:47 PM CST	F0	Cullman	0.1	20
March 13	6:50 PM CST	F0	Cullman	0.1	20

April 7 19 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
April 7	5:50 PM CDT	F0	Colbert	0.1	50	$20,000
April 7	6:14 PM CDT	F0	Lauderdale	0.1	30
April 7	6:25 PM CDT	F1	Colbert	8.0	100	$120,000
April 7	6:55 PM CDT	F1	Colbert	10.0	100	$70,000
April 7	7:05 PM CDT	F1	Limestone	0.7	200	$10,000
April 7	7:45 PM CDT	F0	Madison	0.2	50	$10,000
April 7	7:48 PM CDT	F0	Lincoln to TN	2.1	30
April 7	8:45 PM CDT	F0	Lawrence	0.1	30
April 7	8:55 PM CDT	F1	Marion	9.4	50	$50,000
April 7	9:00 PM CDT	F0	Franklin	3.0	75	$10,000
April 7	9:30 PM CDT	F0	Lawrence	0.1	50
April 7	10:00 PM CDT	F0	Lawrence	0.1	60	$10,000
April 7	10:00 PM CDT	F1	Winston	4.7	150	$80,000
April 7	10:16 PM CDT	F0	Morgan	1.0	50	$1,000
April 7	10:24 PM CDT	F0	Limestone	0.1	40
April 7	10:35 PM CDT	F1	Morgan	9.0	150	$110,000
April 7	11:15 PM CDT	F0	Marshall	0.1	150	$20,000
April 7	11:50 PM CDT	F1	Cullman	0.2	30	$120,000
April 7	12:44 AM CDT	F0	DeKalb	0.1	85	$10,000

April 8 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
April 8	1:16 AM CDT	F1	Jefferson	2.3	100	1	$500,000
April 8	1:23 AM CDT	F1	Jefferson	3.2	100		$300,000
April 8	1:52 AM CDT	F1	Calhoun	0.8	120		$10,000
April 8	3:03 AM CDT	F0	Talladega	0.6	100		$30,000

May 9 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 9	5:00 PM CDT	F0	Limestone	5.0	60
May 9	5:05 PM CDT	F0	Limestone	0.1	30			$20,000

May 10 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 10	2:44 PM CDT	F1	Marengo	2.6	150			$20,000
May 10	6:08 PM CDT	F0	Clarke	0.1	30			$10,000

September 22 6 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
September 22	4:38 PM CDT	F0	Marshall	0.1	10
September 22	5:15 PM CDT	F0	Colbert	4.0	20
September 22	6:02 PM CDT	F2	Blount	1.3	100		$70,000
September 22	6:06 PM CDT	F1	Marshall	3.2	500		$90,000
September 22	6:40 PM CDT	F2	Blount	0.3	200		$50,000
September 22	6:52 PM CDT	F2	Blount	4.4	200	3	$1.5 million

November 15 14 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
November 15	5:44 AM CST	F1	Washington	7.8	300		$750,000
November 15	8:48 AM CST	F0	Baldwin	1.1	50		$50,000
November 15	9:09 AM CST	F1	Baldwin	1.3	150		$100,000
November 15	9:55 AM CST	F1	Montgomery	5.9	250		$150,000
November 15	10:25 AM CST	F2	Montgomery	6.8	250	6	$500,000
November 15	10:40 AM CST	F1	Elmore	1.6	150		$25,000
November 15	11:02 AM CST	F1	Elmore	5.2	100		$30,000
November 15	11:11 AM CST	F0	Tallapoosa	0.1	25		$15,000
November 15	11:30 AM CST	F2	Covington	15.8	300		$1.0 million
November 15	11:53 AM CST	F0	Coffee	3.0	150	2	$350,000
November 15	12:02 PM CST	F0	Chambers	0.2	75		$50,000
November 15	12:12 PM CST	F2	Pike	19.8	650		$507,000
November 15	12:53 PM CST	F0	Barbour	0.1	50		$10,000
November 15	2:38 PM CST	F1	Henry	3.6	100		$150,000

November 30 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
November 30	9:19 PM CST	F1	Marengo	3.6	150	$500,000
November 30	9:35 PM CST	F1	Hale	11.3	75	$20,000
November 30	9:40 PM CST	F0	Hale	3.3	25	$10,000
November 30	9:53 PM CST	F1	Hale	5.8	75	$10,000

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.