Alert archive / Alabama / 1986
Weather alerts in Alabama, May 1986
23 weather alerts in May 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 in May 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 23
- Warnings
- 23
- Watches
- 0
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- May 18, 19869 alerts
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Central Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 5:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 55 min |
| May 12, 3:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Choctaw | 45 min |
| May 18, 12:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke | 60 min |
| May 18, 1:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Monroe | 60 min |
| May 18, 3:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene, Marengo | 60 min |
| May 18, 3:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Sumter | 60 min |
| May 18, 4:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Hale, Perry | 50 min |
| May 18, 4:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Dallas | 70 min |
| May 18, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia | 60 min |
| May 18, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Montgomery | 65 min |
| May 18, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Escambia | 60 min |
| May 24, 5:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Colbert, Franklin | 57 min |
| May 24, 5:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lauderdale | 57 min |
| May 24, 5:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lawrence, Limestone | 63 min |
| May 24, 6:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marion, Winston | 65 min |
| May 24, 8:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lamar | 62 min |
| May 24, 8:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marion | 50 min |
| May 24, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette | 60 min |
| May 24, 9:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Franklin | 62 min |
| May 24, 9:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Winston | 60 min |
| May 24, 10:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cullman | 60 min |
| May 24, 10:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Cullman | 53 min |
| May 24, 10:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Morgan | 55 min |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Severe storms | |
| Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 17 |
| Tornado Warning | 6 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Escambia County2
- Franklin County2
- Marion County2
- Winston County2
- Cullman County2
- Baldwin County1
- Choctaw County1
- Clarke County1
- Monroe County1
- Greene County1
- Marengo County1
- Sumter County1
- Hale County1
- Perry County1
- Dallas County1
- Montgomery County1
- Colbert County1
- Lauderdale County1
- Lawrence County1
- Limestone County1
- Lamar County1
- Fayette County1
- Morgan County1
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.