An Alabama hurricane is a North Atlantic tropical cyclone that affected the U.S. state of Alabama. So far (as of May 2021) 81 tropical and subtropical cyclones have directly or indirectly affected Alabama since HURDAT began in 1851. Only four major hurricanes, the 1926 Miami hurricane, Hurricane Frederic (1979), Hurricane Ivan (2004) and Hurricane Sally and only one off-season storm, Tropical Storm Alberto (2018) has made landfall in Alabama.