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2022 tornadoes in Alabama

98 tornadoes touched down in Alabama in 2022, 178 percent above the average of the record for the state. They killed 3 people and injured 13.

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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 2022

January 1 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
January 1	4:04 PM CST	EF1	Limestone to TN	16.7	150		$50,000
January 1	6:03 PM CST	EF0	Colbert	2.1	60
January 1	6:15 PM CST	EF0	Madison	9.6	30	1
January 1	7:24 PM CST	EF0	Madison	3.7	150		$1,000

January 9 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
January 9	4:37 PM CST	EF0	Pike	0.4	100
January 9	4:47 PM CST	EF0	Conecuh	2.3	25
January 9	5:20 PM CST	EF0	Butler	1.0	25

February 3 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries
February 3	12:52 PM CST	EF2	Sumter	15.5	900
February 3	1:38 PM CST	EF2	Greene	25.9	1,700	1	8
February 3	2:30 PM CST	EF2	Hale	7.6	725
February 3	5:02 PM CST	EF0	Elmore	2.1	100
February 3	5:33 PM CST	EF0	Elmore	0.2	100

February 17 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
February 17	4:14 PM CST	EF1	Fayette	3.4	475
February 17	4:53 PM CST	EF1	Jefferson	4.7	1,100
February 17	6:08 PM CST	EF1	Shelby	12.6	400

February 22 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
February 22	7:22 PM CST	EF0	Madison	3.1	110

March 9 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
March 9	12:42 AM CST	EF1	Mobile	1.8	50
March 9	2:11 AM CST	EF1	Conecuh	0.2	150
March 9	4:50 AM CST	EF1	Barbour	9.1	280

March 22 9 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
March 22	4:58 PM CDT	EF2	Choctaw	2.5	300
March 22	5:29 PM CDT	EF0	Lauderdale	1.9	140
March 22	6:00 PM CDT	EF0	Greene	0.9	150
March 22	6:04 PM CDT	EF0	Greene	3.3	250
March 22	6:21 PM CDT	EF0	Tuscaloosa	1.0	175
March 22	6:33 PM CDT	EF1	Choctaw	0.2	130
March 22	6:38 PM CDT	EF0	Hale	3.1	430
March 22	9:08 PM CDT	EF0	Bibb	2.8	100
March 22	11:07 PM CDT	EF1	Baldwin	5.7	30

March 30 20 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries
March 30	8:51 PM CDT	EF1	Sumter	5.6	600
March 30	9:02 PM CDT	EF1	Pickens	16.6	450
March 30	9:10 PM CDT	EF1	Greene	8.8	275
March 30	9:12 PM CDT	EF2	Choctaw	37.4	1,350
March 30	9:33 PM CDT	EF2	Perry	6.0	620
March 30	9:38 PM CDT	EF1	Greene	1.2	270
March 30	9:53 PM CDT	EF3	Perry	29.2	1,200	2
March 30	10:10 PM CDT	EF1	Tuscaloosa	3.9	400
March 30	10:25 PM CDT	EF1	Marengo	1.0	180
March 30	10:31 PM CDT	EF0	Mobile	0.9	50
March 30	10:33 PM CDT	EF1	Clarke	0.1	75
March 30	10:41 PM CDT	EF0	Mobile	0.6	20
March 30	10:43 PM CDT	EF0	Mobile	0.7	30
March 30	10:43 PM CDT	EF0	Dallas	2.8	175
March 30	10:58 PM CDT	EF1	Mobile	3.0	30
March 30	11:09 PM CDT	EF1	Wilcox	0.8	170
March 30	11:22 PM CDT	EF0	Baldwin	0.6	50
March 30	11:50 PM CDT	EF0	Baldwin	1.3	30
March 30	11:58 PM CDT	EF1	Shelby	4.5	135
March 30	12:09 AM CDT	EF0	Lowndes	2.9	125

April 5 18 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
April 5	9:03 AM CDT	EF2	Clarke	9.5	800
April 5	9:10 AM CDT	EF1	Clarke	1.8	100
April 5	10:10 AM CDT	EF1	Monroe	1.5	75
April 5	10:54 AM CDT	EF2	Elmore	4.4	900
April 5	10:56 AM CDT	EF2	Crenshaw	1.3	250
April 5	11:03 AM CDT	EF2	Pike	12.7	1,100
April 5	11:06 AM CDT	EF0	Elmore	5.3	300
April 5	11:19 AM CDT	EF1	Macon	4.3	250
April 5	11:20 AM CDT	Unrated	Crenshaw	0.4	25
April 5	11:22 AM CDT	EF0	Tallapoosa	1.8	110
April 5	11:34 AM CDT	EF1	Pike	7.6	550
April 5	11:45 AM CDT	EF0	Chambers	0.4	200
April 5	11:50 AM CDT	EF1	Bullock	1.6	600
April 5	12:38 PM CDT	EF1	Barbour	1.5	200
April 5	1:24 PM CDT	EF0	Henry	2.8	50
April 5	1:38 PM CDT	EF0	Houston	6.8	200	$150,000
April 5	1:39 PM CDT	EF1	Geneva	0.2	50	$3,000
April 5	1:53 PM CDT	EF0	Houston	0.1	25	$50,000

April 13 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
April 13	9:35 PM CDT	EF1	Greene	17.6	400
April 13	10:11 PM CDT	EF0	Hale	0.7	50
April 13	10:30 PM CDT	EF0	Tuscaloosa	5.2	300

May 6 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 6	2:56 AM CDT	EF1	Mobile	0.3	25
May 6	3:47 AM CDT	EF1	Baldwin	0.3	25

May 25 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 25	10:28 AM CDT	EF0	DeKalb	0.3	65

May 26 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 26	1:25 PM CDT	EF1	Morgan	0.7	65			$15,000

October 29 11 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
October 29	5:03 PM CDT	EF0	Mobile	1.8	20
October 29	5:10 PM CDT	EF0	Baldwin	0.5	20
October 29	5:16 PM CDT	EF1	Baldwin	0.6	40
October 29	5:23 PM CDT	EF0	Mobile	2.7	110
October 29	6:40 PM CDT	EF1	Mobile	4.9	250
October 29	6:50 PM CDT	EF1	Baldwin	2.5	110
October 29	6:57 PM CDT	EF0	Mobile	2.1	10
October 29	7:09 PM CDT	EF0	Mobile	2.5	180
October 29	8:51 PM CDT	EF0	Baldwin	0.0	20
October 29	9:19 PM CDT	EF0	Baldwin	0.6	20
October 29	9:29 PM CDT	EF1	Baldwin	0.3	20

November 29 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
November 29	9:44 PM CST	EF1	Greene	19.3	1,200

November 30 10 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
November 30	12:28 AM CST	EF0	Walker	2.0	50
November 30	12:57 AM CST	EF0	Blount	3.5	500
November 30	1:11 AM CST	EF1	Marengo	15.5	535
November 30	1:37 AM CST	EF0	Calhoun	0.8	300
November 30	3:14 AM CST	EF2	Elmore	9.8	700	2	2
November 30	3:38 AM CST	EF2	Elmore	6.3	400
November 30	5:42 AM CST	EF0	Pike	1.4	150
November 30	5:45 AM CST	EF0	Pike	0.8	150
November 30	6:06 AM CST	EF0	Barbour	6.6	300
November 30	6:42 AM CST	EF1	Geneva	1.8	50			$40,000

December 14 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
December 14	3:17 PM CST	EF1	Sumter	4.4	225
December 14	5:40 PM CST	EF2	Washington	3.4	140
December 14	5:48 PM CST	EF2	Choctaw	2.7	120

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
November 30	2:27 AM CST	EF3	Greene, MS to AL	20.1	700

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.