{ "title": "Huntsville-area county storm event snapshot", "generated_at": "2026-08-11T00:22:35+00:00", "period_start": "1996-01-01", "period_end": "2026-04-29", "counties": [ { "county": "Limestone", "records": 773, "episodes": 353, "property_damage": 1014554500.0, "injuries_direct": 95, "deaths_direct": 6, "events": [ { "event_type": "Thunderstorm Wind", "records": 405, "property_damage": 5511000.0, "injuries_direct": 1, "deaths_direct": 0 }, { "event_type": "Hail", "records": 167, "property_damage": 75000.0, "injuries_direct": 0, "deaths_direct": 0 }, { "event_type": "Flash Flood", "records": 67, "property_damage": 362500.0, "injuries_direct": 0, "deaths_direct": 0 }, { "event_type": "Tornado", "records": 66, "property_damage": 1007395000.0, "injuries_direct": 90, "deaths_direct": 6 }, { "event_type": "Lightning", "records": 30, "property_damage": 1211000.0, "injuries_direct": 4, "deaths_direct": 0 }, { "event_type": "Flood", "records": 20, "property_damage": 0.0, "injuries_direct": 0, "deaths_direct": 0 }, { "event_type": "Funnel Cloud", "records": 10, "property_damage": 0.0, "injuries_direct": 0, "deaths_direct": 0 }, { "event_type": "Heavy Rain", "records": 8, "property_damage": 0.0, "injuries_direct": 0, "deaths_direct": 0 } ], "years": { "1996": 21, "1997": 19, "1998": 17, "1999": 10, "2000": 17, "2001": 12, "2002": 9, "2003": 15, "2004": 17, "2005": 18, "2006": 27, "2007": 12, "2008": 23, "2009": 35, "2010": 34, "2011": 68, "2012": 68, "2013": 24, "2014": 37, "2015": 12, "2016": 18, "2017": 24, "2018": 31, "2019": 27, "2020": 12, "2021": 15, "2022": 21, "2023": 62, "2024": 21, "2025": 41, "2026": 6 } }, { "county": "Madison", "records": 1764, "episodes": 558, "property_damage": 26316100.0, "injuries_direct": 39, "deaths_direct": 19, "events": [ { "event_type": "Thunderstorm Wind", "records": 916, "property_damage": 16496100.0, "injuries_direct": 20, "deaths_direct": 2 }, { "event_type": "Hail", "records": 423, "property_damage": 432000.0, "injuries_direct": 0, "deaths_direct": 0 }, { "event_type": "Flash Flood", "records": 203, "property_damage": 3461000.0, "injuries_direct": 1, "deaths_direct": 2 }, { "event_type": "Lightning", "records": 69, "property_damage": 3058000.0, "injuries_direct": 9, "deaths_direct": 4 }, { "event_type": "Tornado", "records": 66, "property_damage": 2827000.0, "injuries_direct": 9, "deaths_direct": 10 }, { "event_type": "Flood", "records": 42, "property_damage": 10000.0, "injuries_direct": 0, "deaths_direct": 1 }, { "event_type": "Heavy Rain", "records": 26, "property_damage": 30000.0, "injuries_direct": 0, "deaths_direct": 0 }, { "event_type": "Funnel Cloud", "records": 17, "property_damage": 0.0, "injuries_direct": 0, "deaths_direct": 0 }, { "event_type": "Dust Devil", "records": 2, "property_damage": 2000.0, "injuries_direct": 0, "deaths_direct": 0 } ], "years": { "1996": 25, "1997": 25, "1998": 26, "1999": 27, "2000": 24, "2001": 20, "2002": 37, "2003": 38, "2004": 26, "2005": 54, "2006": 73, "2007": 33, "2008": 78, "2009": 126, "2010": 47, "2011": 133, "2012": 76, "2013": 39, "2014": 23, "2015": 36, "2016": 44, "2017": 112, "2018": 36, "2019": 69, "2020": 67, "2021": 78, "2022": 57, "2023": 126, "2024": 53, "2025": 149, "2026": 7 } }, { "county": "Morgan", "records": 948, "episodes": 376, "property_damage": 11149000.0, "injuries_direct": 16, "deaths_direct": 2, "events": [ { "event_type": "Thunderstorm Wind", "records": 579, "property_damage": 4746500.0, "injuries_direct": 12, "deaths_direct": 1 }, { "event_type": "Hail", "records": 159, "property_damage": 199000.0, "injuries_direct": 0, "deaths_direct": 0 }, { "event_type": "Flash Flood", "records": 111, "property_damage": 701000.0, "injuries_direct": 0, "deaths_direct": 0 }, { "event_type": "Flood", "records": 36, "property_damage": 1100000.0, "injuries_direct": 0, "deaths_direct": 0 }, { "event_type": "Tornado", "records": 31, "property_damage": 1017000.0, "injuries_direct": 0, "deaths_direct": 1 }, { "event_type": "Lightning", "records": 25, "property_damage": 3385500.0, "injuries_direct": 4, "deaths_direct": 0 }, { "event_type": "Funnel Cloud", "records": 4, "property_damage": 0.0, "injuries_direct": 0, "deaths_direct": 0 }, { "event_type": "Heavy Rain", "records": 2, "property_damage": 0.0, "injuries_direct": 0, "deaths_direct": 0 }, { "event_type": "Dust Devil", "records": 1, "property_damage": 0.0, "injuries_direct": 0, "deaths_direct": 0 } ], "years": { "1996": 14, "1997": 23, "1998": 11, "1999": 9, "2000": 15, "2001": 12, "2002": 11, "2003": 19, "2004": 16, "2005": 18, "2006": 34, "2007": 13, "2008": 21, "2009": 101, "2010": 20, "2011": 55, "2012": 23, "2013": 21, "2014": 17, "2015": 15, "2016": 9, "2017": 66, "2018": 24, "2019": 45, "2020": 34, "2021": 28, "2022": 11, "2023": 47, "2024": 60, "2025": 145, "2026": 11 } } ], "method": "NOAA NCEI Storm Events detail records for Alabama county entries where CZ_TYPE is C. The period begins in 1996, when NOAA records all 48 event types under Directive 10-1605.", "limitations": [ "A database event record is not a forecast or a property-level probability.", "County-zone and other zone records are excluded because they cannot be assigned to one of the named counties by CZ_NAME.", "Damage values are direct property-damage estimates in the source records and may be missing, rounded, or revised.", "The three-county view covers the site's Huntsville, Madison, Athens, and Decatur focus. It is not a boundary for all of North Alabama." ], "sources": { "database": "https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/", "details": "https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/details.jsp", "bulk_files": "https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/swdi/stormevents/csvfiles/", "file_count": 31, "latest_files": [ "StormEvents_details-ftp_v1.0_d1996_c20260323.csv.gz", "StormEvents_details-ftp_v1.0_d1997_c20260323.csv.gz", "StormEvents_details-ftp_v1.0_d1998_c20260323.csv.gz", "StormEvents_details-ftp_v1.0_d1999_c20260323.csv.gz", "StormEvents_details-ftp_v1.0_d2000_c20260323.csv.gz", "StormEvents_details-ftp_v1.0_d2001_c20260323.csv.gz", "StormEvents_details-ftp_v1.0_d2002_c20260323.csv.gz", "StormEvents_details-ftp_v1.0_d2003_c20260323.csv.gz", "StormEvents_details-ftp_v1.0_d2004_c20260323.csv.gz", "StormEvents_details-ftp_v1.0_d2005_c20260323.csv.gz", "StormEvents_details-ftp_v1.0_d2006_c20260323.csv.gz", "StormEvents_details-ftp_v1.0_d2007_c20260323.csv.gz", "StormEvents_details-ftp_v1.0_d2008_c20260323.csv.gz", "StormEvents_details-ftp_v1.0_d2009_c20260323.csv.gz", "StormEvents_details-ftp_v1.0_d2010_c20260323.csv.gz", "StormEvents_details-ftp_v1.0_d2011_c20260323.csv.gz", "StormEvents_details-ftp_v1.0_d2012_c20260323.csv.gz", "StormEvents_details-ftp_v1.0_d2013_c20260323.csv.gz", "StormEvents_details-ftp_v1.0_d2014_c20260323.csv.gz", "StormEvents_details-ftp_v1.0_d2015_c20260323.csv.gz", "StormEvents_details-ftp_v1.0_d2016_c20260323.csv.gz", "StormEvents_details-ftp_v1.0_d2017_c20260519.csv.gz", "StormEvents_details-ftp_v1.0_d2018_c20260323.csv.gz", "StormEvents_details-ftp_v1.0_d2019_c20260323.csv.gz", "StormEvents_details-ftp_v1.0_d2020_c20260323.csv.gz", "StormEvents_details-ftp_v1.0_d2021_c20260323.csv.gz", "StormEvents_details-ftp_v1.0_d2022_c20260625.csv.gz", "StormEvents_details-ftp_v1.0_d2023_c20260323.csv.gz", "StormEvents_details-ftp_v1.0_d2024_c20260728.csv.gz", "StormEvents_details-ftp_v1.0_d2025_c20260728.csv.gz", "StormEvents_details-ftp_v1.0_d2026_c20260728.csv.gz" ] } }