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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.
These supercells produced several tornadoes across Alabama, including the Center Point–Clay EF3 tornado. [4] At 2:45 AM CST, minutes before the tornado touched down, the Storm Prediction Center issued a tornado watch across Central Alabama, which included a high risk/80% change for tornadoes and a moderate risk/50% chance for significant, EF2 ...
The year began with an unusual number of tornadoes during January 2012. The first major tornado outbreak occurred on January 22–23, when a spring-like system moved across the southern Mississippi valley, producing at least two dozen confirmed tornadoes across Arkansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Alabama. As a whole, January was the ...
January 2012 was the third-most active January for tornadoes in the United States since 1950, with 79 tornadoes, behind 1999 and 2008. [10] Two deaths occurred in Alabama on January 23. [ 11 ] The activity was the result of a strong La Niña , [ 10 ] which contributed to the fourth-warmest January in the United States in recorded history. [ 12 ]
Another EF1 tornado occurred in Dade County, Georgia, with the cell, and six more tornadoes struck Hamilton County, Tennessee, five of which were in the Chattanooga area. The 26th and final tornado produced by the MCV was an EF2 tornado in northern Bradley County, Tennessee , which hit at 9:45 a.m. EDT (13:45 UTC). [ 43 ]
February 2012 was more active than normal in terms of the number of tornadoes, with a total of 50 confirmed. While the first three weeks of the month were unusually quiet, the pattern changed abruptly with a major tornado outbreak, which struck the region less than 72 hours prior to this storm, killing 15 people, including 8 in Harrisburg, Illinois alone, the result of an EF4 tornado.
On Christmas Day 2012 (December 25), a tornado outbreak occurred across the Southern United States. This severe weather/tornado event affected the United States Gulf Coast and southern East Coast over a two-day span. It occurred in conjunction with a much larger winter storm event that brought blizzard conditions to much of the interior United ...
List of reported tornadoes - Sunday, May 13, 2012 EF# Location County Coord. Time (UTC) Path length Comments/Damage Alabama: EF0: WNW of Auburn: Lee: 1902 2.3 miles (3.7 km) Weak tornado downed several trees. New Mexico: EF1: SW of Magdalena: Socorro