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Alabama Flood Stories

1,380 first-hand accounts of flood events in Alabama, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.

Flash Flood

Barbour, AL · Sep 16, 2004

A few hundred trees and power lines were knocked down or blown over countywide. At least 200 residences received varying degrees of roof damage. Several homes were without power three to four days.

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Flood

Colbert, AL · Nov 29, 2022

Multiple rounds of thunderstorms, some strong to severe, moved through the region during the afternoon of the 29th into the early morning of the 30th.

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Flash Flood$15K damage

Marion, AL · May 2, 1997

Up to seven inches of rain fell causing several roads to wash out including CR 95 between SR 253 and SR 44. In Winfield, the city park was under up to 6 feet of water, destroying an ice machine, a pitching machine and a concession stand.

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Flash Flood

Madison, AL · Mar 24, 2020

Multiple supercell clusters developed in northern Mississippi during the late afternoon hours, which moved east across north Alabama during the early to mid evening hours.

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Flash Flood

Madison, AL · Mar 24, 2020

Multiple supercell clusters developed in northern Mississippi during the late afternoon hours, which moved east across north Alabama during the early to mid evening hours.

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Flash Flood

Madison, AL · Mar 24, 2020

Multiple supercell clusters developed in northern Mississippi during the late afternoon hours, which moved east across north Alabama during the early to mid evening hours.

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Flash Flood

Colbert, AL · Mar 24, 2020

Multiple supercell clusters developed in northern Mississippi during the late afternoon hours, which moved east across north Alabama during the early to mid evening hours.

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Flash Flood

Colbert, AL · Mar 24, 2020

Multiple supercell clusters developed in northern Mississippi during the late afternoon hours, which moved east across north Alabama during the early to mid evening hours.

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Flash Flood

Colbert, AL · Mar 25, 2020

Multiple supercell clusters developed in northern Mississippi during the late afternoon hours, which moved east across north Alabama during the early to mid evening hours.

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Flash Flood

Morgan, AL · Apr 12, 2020

Heavy rainfall occurred across the entire NWS Huntsville County Warning area, as well as damage from thunderstorm winds and a few tornadoes. ||While heavy rainfall reports were spread out across the CWFA, the most significant flash flooding occurred in Fort Payne and surrounding…

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Flash Flood

Cullman, AL · Apr 12, 2020

Heavy rainfall occurred across the entire NWS Huntsville County Warning area, as well as damage from thunderstorm winds and a few tornadoes. ||While heavy rainfall reports were spread out across the CWFA, the most significant flash flooding occurred in Fort Payne and surrounding…

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Flash Flood

Morgan, AL · Apr 12, 2020

Heavy rainfall occurred across the entire NWS Huntsville County Warning area, as well as damage from thunderstorm winds and a few tornadoes. ||While heavy rainfall reports were spread out across the CWFA, the most significant flash flooding occurred in Fort Payne and surrounding…

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Flash Flood

Cherokee, AL · Apr 12, 2020

An upper-level low over the southwest United States evolved into a negatively-tilted shortwave trough as it moved over the southeastern United States. A warm front steadily moved northward during the morning and afternoon hours on Sunday, April 12.

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Flash Flood

Morgan, AL · Apr 12, 2020

Heavy rainfall occurred across the entire NWS Huntsville County Warning area, as well as damage from thunderstorm winds and a few tornadoes. ||While heavy rainfall reports were spread out across the CWFA, the most significant flash flooding occurred in Fort Payne and surrounding…

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Flash Flood

Cullman, AL · Apr 12, 2020

Heavy rainfall occurred across the entire NWS Huntsville County Warning area, as well as damage from thunderstorm winds and a few tornadoes. ||While heavy rainfall reports were spread out across the CWFA, the most significant flash flooding occurred in Fort Payne and surrounding…

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Flash Flood

Cullman, AL · Apr 12, 2020

Heavy rainfall occurred across the entire NWS Huntsville County Warning area, as well as damage from thunderstorm winds and a few tornadoes. ||While heavy rainfall reports were spread out across the CWFA, the most significant flash flooding occurred in Fort Payne and surrounding…

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Flash Flood

Etowah, AL · Apr 12, 2020

An upper-level low over the southwest United States evolved into a negatively-tilted shortwave trough as it moved over the southeastern United States. A warm front steadily moved northward during the morning and afternoon hours on Sunday, April 12.

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Flash Flood

Cullman, AL · Apr 12, 2020

Heavy rainfall occurred across the entire NWS Huntsville County Warning area, as well as damage from thunderstorm winds and a few tornadoes. ||While heavy rainfall reports were spread out across the CWFA, the most significant flash flooding occurred in Fort Payne and surrounding…

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Flash Flood

Cullman, AL · Apr 12, 2020

Heavy rainfall occurred across the entire NWS Huntsville County Warning area, as well as damage from thunderstorm winds and a few tornadoes. ||While heavy rainfall reports were spread out across the CWFA, the most significant flash flooding occurred in Fort Payne and surrounding…

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Flash Flood

Cullman, AL · Apr 12, 2020

Heavy rainfall occurred across the entire NWS Huntsville County Warning area, as well as damage from thunderstorm winds and a few tornadoes. ||While heavy rainfall reports were spread out across the CWFA, the most significant flash flooding occurred in Fort Payne and surrounding…

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Flash Flood

Morgan, AL · Apr 12, 2020

Heavy rainfall occurred across the entire NWS Huntsville County Warning area, as well as damage from thunderstorm winds and a few tornadoes. ||While heavy rainfall reports were spread out across the CWFA, the most significant flash flooding occurred in Fort Payne and surrounding…

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Flash Flood

Dekalb, AL · Apr 12, 2020

Heavy rainfall occurred across the entire NWS Huntsville County Warning area, as well as damage from thunderstorm winds and a few tornadoes. ||While heavy rainfall reports were spread out across the CWFA, the most significant flash flooding occurred in Fort Payne and surrounding…

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Flash Flood

Dekalb, AL · Apr 12, 2020

Heavy rainfall occurred across the entire NWS Huntsville County Warning area, as well as damage from thunderstorm winds and a few tornadoes. ||While heavy rainfall reports were spread out across the CWFA, the most significant flash flooding occurred in Fort Payne and surrounding…

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Flash Flood

Dekalb, AL · Apr 12, 2020

Heavy rainfall occurred across the entire NWS Huntsville County Warning area, as well as damage from thunderstorm winds and a few tornadoes. ||While heavy rainfall reports were spread out across the CWFA, the most significant flash flooding occurred in Fort Payne and surrounding…

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