Weather alerts in Alabama
88,250 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state.
Weather alerts by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 88,250
- Warnings
- 43,240
- Watches
- 3,270
- Advisories
- 10,146
- Busiest year
- 20235,113 alerts
- Average year
- 2,152over 41 years on file
Over time
By year
Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.
By month of the year
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Baldwin County5,908
- Mobile County5,885
- Madison County5,339
- Jefferson County5,161
- Washington County4,822
- Clarke County4,765
- Tuscaloosa County4,686
- Jackson County4,684
- Shelby County4,679
- Escambia County4,519
- Lawrence County4,425
- Limestone County4,371
- Houston County4,371
- Covington County4,334
- Colbert County4,302
- Lauderdale County4,302
- Morgan County4,289
- Dale County4,262
- Geneva County4,219
- Choctaw County4,212
- Greene County4,200
- Marshall County4,178
- Sumter County4,156
- Pickens County4,155
- Cullman County4,141
- Montgomery County4,132
- DeKalb County4,126
- Monroe County4,105
- Walker County4,104
- Talladega County4,075
- Hale County4,074
- Marengo County4,063
- Coffee County4,043
- Marion County4,007
- Bibb County4,005
- Henry County4,002
- St. Clair County3,991
- Lamar County3,985
- Elmore County3,969
- Conecuh County3,961
27 more counties
- Fayette County3,945
- Franklin County3,944
- Chilton County3,895
- Dallas County3,863
- Winston County3,752
- Blount County3,730
- Autauga County3,720
- Tallapoosa County3,710
- Perry County3,704
- Coosa County3,680
- Wilcox County3,678
- Calhoun County3,667
- Macon County3,646
- Lowndes County3,597
- Clay County3,562
- Butler County3,522
- Etowah County3,519
- Lee County3,508
- Barbour County3,493
- Crenshaw County3,477
- Russell County3,451
- Cherokee County3,440
- Bullock County3,431
- Pike County3,413
- Cleburne County3,345
- Chambers County3,311
- Randolph County3,282
The latest warnings
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 22, 5:22 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 83 min | |
| Sep 22, 4:11 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 81 min | |
| Sep 22, 3:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Madison, Marshall | 36 min |
| Sep 22, 3:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Madison, Morgan | 24 min |
| Sep 22, 3:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Jackson, Marshall | 17 min |
| Sep 22, 2:54 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 36 min | |
| Sep 22, 2:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | DeKalb, Jackson | 42 min |
| Sep 22, 1:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone | 65 min |
| Sep 22, 12:39 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 66 min | |
| Sep 21, 9:35 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 62 min | |
| Sep 21, 8:31 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 89 min | |
| Sep 21, 8:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 40 min |
Nearby
Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Rebuilt daily.