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This list of Alabama tornado events includes notable storms which affected the US state of Alabama. Because it is not always simple to determine if damage was caused by multiple tornadoes or by a single tornado moving across an area, then the list includes the overall tornado events. Several events also affected other U.S. states.
Between December 28–29, 2024, a late season tornado outbreak affected the Deep South.Multiple tornadoes caused severe damage in the Greater Houston area and in Port Arthur, Texas while additional tornadoes caused damage in other states, including Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama.
The tornado then dissipated just east of Penton, 3.5 miles (5.6 km) west-northwest of White Plains at 2:08 p.m. CST (20:08 UTC) after traveling 82.31 miles (132.47 km), which resulted in this becoming the sixth longest-tracked tornado in Alabama history. [60] A total of seven people were killed by this tornado, and at least 16 others were injured.
It is one of the costliest tornadoes on record, and was one of the 367 tornadoes in the 2011 Super Outbreak, the largest tornado outbreak in United States history. The tornado reached a maximum path width of 1.5 miles (2.4 km) during its track through Tuscaloosa, and again when it crossed I-65 north of Birmingham, attaining estimated wind ...
Thousands of households in central Alabama are without power after a line of storms that sparked multiple tornado warnings crossed the state.
The tornado then moved into a wooded area, weakened, and eventually lifted south-southwest of Guntersville at 5:56 p.m. CDT (22:56 UTC). Thousands of trees were downed along the tornado's path. [18] The tornado was on the ground for two hours and sixteen minutes, tracking for 127.8 miles (205.7 km) across seven counties.
The deadly tornado outbreak across the southern United States last week resulted in dozens of destructive tornadoes and multiple deaths across Alabama and Georgia, including four members of the ...
Tornado outbreak of June 5–6, 1916; Tornado outbreak sequence of May 25 – June 1, 1917; 1920 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak; April 1920 tornado outbreak; April 1924 tornado outbreak; 1932 Deep South tornado outbreak; 1936 Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak; 1936 Cordele–Greensboro tornado outbreak; Tornado outbreak of March 16–17, 1942