Tornadoes · United States · Alabama

2019 tornadoes in Alabama

81 tornadoes touched down in Alabama in 2019, 130 percent above the average of the record for the state. They killed 25 people and injured 101. 1 were rated F4 or EF4 and above.

2018 2020 The whole country in 2019

The rating scale

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

EF065 to 85 mph
Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.
EF186 to 110 mph
Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.
EF2111 to 135 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.
EF3136 to 165 mph
Severe damage. Whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned, trees debarked, heavy cars lifted and thrown.
EF4166 to 200 mph
Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.
EF5over 200 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 2019

January 4 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
January 4	4:38 AM CST	EF0	Henry	0.1	35

January 19 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries
January 19	1:47 PM CST	EF1	Dallas	6.1	75
January 19	2:04 PM CST	EF1	Autauga	9.1	400	2
January 19	2:52 PM CST	EF2	Elmore	18.1	700	4
January 19	2:58 PM CST	EF1	Coosa	1.7	112

February 23 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
February 23	5:44 PM CST	EF0	Pickens	1.1	200
February 23	5:52 PM CST	EF1	Lamar	9.2	700
February 23	6:38 PM CST	EF0	Fayette	5.0	350

February 24 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
February 24	1:54 AM CST	EF1	Coosa	5.0	550

March 3 12 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 3	12:55 PM CST	EF1	Washington	0.2	300			$10,000
March 3	1:19 PM CST	EF0	Autauga	0.6	70
March 3	1:37 PM CST	EF1	Washington	2.6	100			$50,000
March 3	2:00 PM CST	EF4	Macon to GA	68.0	1,600	23	90	$1.8 million
March 3	2:27 PM CST	EF2	Macon	29.1	1,300		1
March 3	2:34 PM CST	EF1	Butler	0.3	50			$15,000
March 3	2:38 PM CST	EF1	Crenshaw	2.6	50			$15,000
March 3	3:15 PM CST	EF0	Bullock	0.4	50
March 3	3:45 PM CST	EF2	Barbour	6.7	700
March 3	3:58 PM CST	EF2	Quitman to GA	30.9	860			$415,000
March 3	4:39 PM CST	EF0	Clay to GA	10.8	75			$10,000
March 3	4:51 PM CST	EF1	Geneva	5.1	300			$100,000

March 14 16 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
March 14	4:10 PM CDT	EF1	Cullman	11.1	112
March 14	5:04 PM CDT	EF0	Blount	2.6	115
March 14	5:05 PM CDT	EF1	Blount	17.2	1,175
March 14	5:25 PM CDT	EF0	Tuscaloosa	1.2	50
March 14	5:54 PM CDT	EF1	St. Clair	4.7	530
March 14	6:19 PM CDT	EF0	Perry	4.5	100
March 14	6:22 PM CDT	EF0	Calhoun	1.2	200
March 14	6:37 PM CDT	EF1	Perry	9.4	300
March 14	6:39 PM CDT	EF0	Marengo	5.1	150
March 14	7:27 PM CDT	EF0	Dallas	2.9	300
March 14	7:39 PM CDT	EF0	Chilton	11.9	350
March 14	8:21 PM CDT	EF0	Coosa	0.6	40
March 14	8:44 PM CDT	EF1	Autauga	7.1	250
March 14	8:46 PM CDT	EF0	Coosa	2.1	150
March 14	9:32 PM CDT	EF2	Elmore	8.6	650
March 14	10:00 PM CDT	EF0	Randolph	4.4	75

April 8 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries
April 8	5:15 AM CDT	EF0	Blount	2.2	325
April 8	5:44 AM CDT	EF1	Blount	6.3	1,175
April 8	7:10 AM CDT	EF1	Marshall	6.1	219	1

April 13 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 13	11:57 PM CDT	EF1	Marion	1.2	440
April 13	12:14 AM CDT	EF1	Franklin	6.3	80

April 14 11 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
April 14	1:26 AM CDT	EF0	Hale	8.7	220
April 14	1:35 AM CDT	EF1	Colbert	1.1	70
April 14	2:20 AM CDT	EF1	Tuscaloosa	3.5	475
April 14	3:21 AM CDT	EF0	Perry	6.7	400
April 14	4:05 AM CDT	EF0	Shelby	6.5	600
April 14	4:14 AM CDT	EF0	Shelby	3.0	125
April 14	6:28 AM CDT	EF1	Etowah	3.8	95
April 14	6:50 AM CDT	EF0	Pike	1.0	150
April 14	6:53 AM CDT	EF0	Crenshaw	2.6	70	$20,000
April 14	7:10 AM CDT	EF1	Pike	2.8	300
April 14	9:14 AM CDT	EF0	Muscogee to GA	3.2	50	$150,000

May 9 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
May 9	12:46 PM CDT	EF0	Lincoln to TN	2.6	75
May 9	1:30 PM CDT	EF1	Marshall	0.5	25
May 9	1:55 PM CDT	EF1	DeKalb	0.6	25

May 12 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 12	10:33 AM CDT	EF0	Houston	0.9	100			$10,000

June 6 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 6	4:07 PM CDT	EF0	Dallas	0.8	60

June 7 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 7	12:57 PM CDT	EF0	Mobile	0.5	25			$25,000

October 25 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
October 25	4:12 PM CDT	EF1	Mobile	1.3	75
October 25	4:19 PM CDT	EF0	Mobile	0.1	25
October 25	4:37 PM CDT	EF1	Mobile	3.3	100
October 25	7:39 PM CDT	EF1	Clarke	0.9	100

November 7 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
November 7	1:35 PM CST	EF0	Mobile	0.4	25

November 27 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
November 27	9:05 AM CST	EF0	Pike	0.5	65
November 27	9:19 AM CST	EF0	Barbour	1.1	40
November 27	9:26 AM CST	EF0	Barbour	2.1	55

December 16 12 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries
December 16	4:50 PM CST	EF1	Colbert	0.7	75
December 16	4:52 PM CST	EF2	Colbert	8.2	250
December 16	5:08 PM CST	EF2	Lawrence	18.5	370	2
December 16	5:20 PM CST	EF1	Lauderdale	2.9	500
December 16	5:30 PM CST	EF1	Limestone	9.5	50
December 16	5:54 PM CST	EF1	Madison	1.3	25
December 16	6:05 PM CST	EF0	Madison	3.2	37
December 16	8:07 PM CST	EF2	Marengo	6.0	350		3
December 16	9:03 PM CST	EF0	Hale	5.3	300
December 16	9:49 PM CST	EF0	Bibb	3.1	200
December 16	10:00 PM CST	EF1	Bibb	2.6	300
December 16	10:07 PM CST	EF0	Shelby	2.3	200

December 17 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
December 17	6:52 AM CST	EF0	Houston	0.1	25			$25,000

December 29 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
December 29	6:50 PM CST	EF0	Limestone	5.1	50

Crossed into Alabama

Tornadoes that touched down in a neighboring state and ran into Alabama. They are counted under the state they began in.

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
December 16	5:59 PM CST	EF3	Jones, MS to AL	61.2	350		2	$1.2 million

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.