Tornadoes · United States · Alabama

2025 tornadoes in Alabama

70 tornadoes touched down in Alabama in 2025, 98 percent above the average of the record for the state. They killed 3 people and injured 20.

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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 2025

January 5 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
January 5	7:40 PM CST	EF0	Franklin	2.4	158
January 5	8:53 PM CST	EF1	Pickens	6.9	300

February 12 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
February 12	6:15 PM CST	EF2	Clarke	11.9	650

February 15 7 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries
February 15	10:54 PM CST	EF1	Franklin	6.0	75
February 15	11:12 PM CST	EF0	Franklin	2.9	75
February 15	11:12 PM CST	EF1	Colbert	4.3	215
February 15	11:20 PM CST	EF2	Franklin	3.9	170	1
February 15	11:22 PM CST	EF1	Lauderdale	13.4	250
February 15	11:33 PM CST	EF1	Lawrence	1.5	150
February 15	11:37 PM CST	EF1	Lauderdale	0.4	115

February 16 6 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries
February 16	12:33 AM CST	EF0	Hale	1.6	150	1
February 16	12:52 AM CST	EF1	Hale	18.4	200	2
February 16	1:05 AM CST	EF1	Marshall	0.8	30
February 16	2:00 AM CST	EF0	Coosa	12.2	250
February 16	2:42 AM CST	EF1	Tallapoosa	1.8	100
February 16	2:47 AM CST	EF1	Macon	7.5	450

March 15 19 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 15	2:21 PM CDT	EF1	Lauderdale	2.3	63			$109,000
March 15	3:08 PM CDT	EF1	Greene	26.5	1,200
March 15	4:00 PM CDT	EF1	Tuscaloosa	11.5	600
March 15	4:12 PM CDT	EF2	Tuscaloosa	39.5	1,000
March 15	4:32 PM CDT	EF2	Pickens	21.6	950
March 15	5:20 PM CDT	EF2	Sumter	3.3	650
March 15	6:38 PM CDT	EF0	Hale	21.6	700
March 15	7:39 PM CDT	EF0	Bibb	7.6	75
March 15	7:57 PM CDT	EF1	Shelby	7.5	250
March 15	8:00 PM CDT	EF1	Shelby	2.5	150
March 15	8:20 PM CDT	EF1	Washington	6.3	200
March 15	8:42 PM CDT	EF2	Talladega	3.6	500	1	1
March 15	8:48 PM CDT	EF1	Clarke	13.9	240
March 15	8:50 PM CDT	EF3	Autauga	24.3	1,000	2	2
March 15	9:10 PM CDT	EF0	Clarke	1.4	200
March 15	9:33 PM CDT	EF1	Coosa	12.0	200
March 15	10:48 PM CDT	EF3	Tallapoosa	20.4	800
March 15	11:02 PM CDT	EF2	Pike	21.3	1,400		3
March 15	11:59 PM CDT	EF0	Chambers	3.8	100

March 31 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 31	12:22 PM CDT	EF0	Dale	0.7	50			$25,000
March 31	12:31 PM CDT	EF1	Houston	3.1	200		5	$500,000

April 5 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
April 5	10:18 PM CDT	EF1	Colbert	8.4	275
April 5	10:25 PM CDT	EF1	Colbert	28.8	280	5	$3.4 million
April 5	10:45 PM CDT	EF1	Lauderdale	5.8	85		$3.4 million

April 6 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
April 6	1:33 AM CDT	EF1	Marshall	1.0	175	$120,000
April 6	8:58 AM CDT	EF1	Wilcox	0.5	75
April 6	8:59 AM CDT	EF1	Wilcox	1.8	200
April 6	10:13 AM CDT	EF1	Dallas	1.3	400
April 6	10:21 PM CDT	EF0	Barbour	0.5	50

May 3 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 3	3:49 PM CDT	EF1	Jackson	13.3	80
May 3	7:21 PM CDT	EF0	Lee	3.8	175

May 20 16 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
May 20	12:03 PM CDT	EF1	Lauderdale	1.8	80
May 20	5:10 PM CDT	EF1	Lauderdale	17.1	575	$688,000
May 20	5:51 PM CDT	Unrated	Limestone	2.2	25
May 20	6:09 PM CDT	EF2	Limestone	13.2	125
May 20	6:09 PM CDT	EF1	Limestone	0.9	65
May 20	6:11 PM CDT	EF1	Limestone	2.8	160	$927,000
May 20	6:51 PM CDT	EF1	Madison	8.7	280
May 20	6:52 PM CDT	EF1	Morgan	11.0	540
May 20	7:07 PM CDT	EF2	Madison	7.3	400
May 20	7:14 PM CDT	EF1	Jackson	10.5	275
May 20	8:46 PM CDT	EF1	Marshall	3.4	150
May 20	8:47 PM CDT	EF0	Jackson	6.1	105
May 20	9:33 PM CDT	EF1	DeKalb	6.0	700
May 20	9:49 PM CDT	EF1	DeKalb	0.4	250
May 20	11:38 PM CDT	EF1	Calhoun	3.5	1,000
May 20	12:28 AM CDT	EF1	Cleburne	2.0	550

May 21 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 21	3:58 AM CDT	EF1	Bullock	5.0	900

May 25 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 25	4:34 PM CDT	EF0	Jackson	8.1	140

May 27 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 27	6:51 PM CDT	EF0	Madison	0.1	25

May 29 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 29	9:03 AM CDT	EF0	Mobile	2.5	100

October 26 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
October 26	10:52 PM CDT	EF1	Baldwin	1.2	125

November 25 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
November 25	4:23 AM CST	EF1	Jefferson	17.9	300
November 25	4:44 AM CST	EF0	Jefferson	4.2	150

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)	Injuries	Damage
April 3	4:38 PM CDT	EF1	Alcorn, MS to AL, TN	28.0	425		$930,000
April 6	6:54 AM CDT	EF2	Lauderdale, MS to AL	5.3	800		$600,000
May 10	11:08 AM CDT	EF2	Holmes, FL to AL	15.5	600	1	$105,000

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.