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Alabama Tornado History & Map

Explore Alabama tornado records from 1950–2025: touchdown counts, monthly distribution, F/EF ratings, and selected tracks.

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2,681 tornado records with touchdown in Alabama during 1950–2025.

Recorded dates in this selection run from Apr 18, 1950 to Nov 25, 2025. The archive has entries in 76 of 76 covered calendar years. 2011 has the largest annual count, with 140 records.

Alabama offers a Southeast comparison to the Plains states. Inspect the autumn and winter months as well as spring. A single large outbreak can strongly influence the monthly totals; the chart pools records across the full archive rather than predicting a typical year.

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Single-track records
2,681
Tracks affecting more than one state
44
Unrated records
11
Records without a start position
0

When were Alabama tornadoes recorded?

April has the largest pooled count, with 587 records across the archive. This pools all covered years; individual dates can strongly influence the total. It is not a forecast or an adjusted monthly average.

Monthly tornado records · Alabama, 1950–2025
  1. January194
  2. February193
  3. March442
  4. April587
  5. May288
  6. June93
  7. July76
  8. August86
  9. September107
  10. October125
  11. November291
  12. December199

Recorded tornadoes by archive month. Counts include records with missing coordinates or ratings. Source: NOAA SPC single-track archive.

Recorded damage ratings

F labels remain on earlier records and EF labels on records from February 1, 2007 onward. Unrated means unavailable, not EF0. Read the rating definitions.

Counts by original F or EF label. Zero means no rated records in that category; unknown ratings are counted separately.
Rating numberF recordsEF records
0445460
1517564
2339159
310737
42213
552
Unrated11

Recent years in Alabama

Latest five archive years, using the same touchdown-state selection.
YearRecordsExplore
202570Map for 2025
202469Map for 2024
202373Map for 2023
202298Map for 2022
202165Map for 2021

Selected records to explore

5 rated records, ordered by rating number, then most recent date and archive ID. These are examples to inspect, not a ranking of financial loss, measured winds, or casualties.

Record dimensions and dates come from the source archive. Follow a date to open its map record.
DateTouchdownRatingLength (mi)
Apr 27, 2011AlabamaEF5132
Apr 27, 2011AlabamaEF533.66
Apr 8, 1998AlabamaF530.3
Apr 4, 1977AlabamaF514.7
Apr 3, 1974AlabamaF552

How to interpret this page

These are whole tracks selected by their recorded touchdown area, not all tornadoes that affected that area. The linked map also includes tracks recorded as ending in or crossing the selected state, so its count may be higher. A border-crossing track's rating and dimensions describe the whole event and may reflect conditions beyond that border. Earlier reporting was less complete, especially for weaker tornadoes.

Source: NOAA SPC 1950–2025 single-track CSV. Latest event date: 2025-12-28. Processing and limitations explain missing values, approximate track lines, and why monetary losses are not totaled here.

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