Alabama tornado kills 5; as many as 8 twisters may have touched down. John De Block, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Birmingham, ...

The annual average number of tornadoes reported in Alabama doubled from 17.2 for the 20-year period of 1980-1999 to 34.4 for 2000-2019, analysis by the USA TODAY Network has found.

One week after tornadoes threatened Alabama, a powerful storm system on Thursday left a path of destruction across the state, damaging homes, injuring a countless number of people and killing five ...

A tornado emergency has been issued for parts of northern Alabama as a large and destructive tornado tears through the area - ...

The tornadoes moved across Alabama and neighboring Georgia, the National Weather Service said, and there were reports of homes destroyed, trees knocked over, and people injured and trapped.

A La Nina weather pattern, warm moist air coming from an unusually toasty Gulf of Mexico, likely juiced by climate change, and a decades long eastward shift of tornadoes came together to create the… ...

After several tornadoes hit a trailer park in the northern Alabama town of Muscle Shoals on April 5, Haley Lowery joined efforts to help the roughly 20 displaced families, most of whom are Hispanic.

At least 23 people were killed in an Alabama town when a slew of tornadoes ripped through Sunday, leaving behind "catastrophic" damage, said Lee County Sheriff Jay Jones.. This storm brought the ...

Ten years ago today - on April 27, 2011 - Alabama suffered the largest and costliest tornado outbreak in state history.Of the 62 tornadoes that touched down in Alabama that day, eight were EF4s ...

Alabama's Tornado Outbreak: Violent-long tracked tornadoes remain in the weather forecast, with damaging wind and large hail also possible. Posted: March 15, 2025 | Last updated: March 15, 2025.

At 11:36 a.m. Central time Thursday, the National Weather Service in Birmingham issued its first tornado warning of the day for an elongated, strung-out thunderstorm cell in west central Alabama ...