Alert archive / Alabama / 1988
Weather alerts in Alabama, April 1988
54 weather alerts in April 1988, 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 April 1988. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 54
- Warnings
- 54
- Watches
- 0
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- April 25, 198826 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 18, 3:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 52 min |
| Apr 18, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 45 min |
| Apr 18, 5:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 66 min |
| Apr 18, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Elmore, Montgomery | 46 min |
| Apr 18, 7:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Houston | 50 min |
| Apr 18, 8:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Choctaw | 57 min |
| Apr 18, 9:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marengo | 69 min |
| Apr 18, 9:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 41 min |
| Apr 18, 10:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Autauga, Montgomery | 51 min |
| Apr 18, 10:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Elmore | 36 min |
| Apr 18, 11:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Lee | 54 min |
| Apr 22, 2:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Morgan | 58 min |
| Apr 23, 11:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Sumter | 43 min |
| Apr 23, 11:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene, Hale, Marengo | 56 min |
| Apr 23, 12:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Perry | 62 min |
| Apr 23, 12:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Dallas | 61 min |
| Apr 23, 1:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Autauga | 41 min |
| Apr 23, 1:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Choctaw | 66 min |
| Apr 23, 1:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke | 52 min |
| Apr 23, 2:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marengo | 69 min |
| Apr 23, 7:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 63 min |
| Apr 23, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Colbert | 60 min |
| Apr 23, 8:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb | 62 min |
| Apr 23, 8:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Shelby | 55 min |
| Apr 25, 4:49 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Choctaw | 26 min |
| Apr 25, 4:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marengo | 47 min |
| Apr 25, 5:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke | 61 min |
| Apr 25, 12:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 47 min |
| Apr 25, 12:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Walker | 37 min |
| Apr 25, 1:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cullman | 39 min |
| Apr 25, 1:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 42 min |
| Apr 25, 1:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Talladega | 49 min |
| Apr 25, 2:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cleburne | 42 min |
| Apr 25, 2:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Cleburne | 28 min |
| Apr 25, 2:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 43 min |
| Apr 25, 2:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Etowah | 58 min |
| Apr 25, 3:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Talladega | 18 min |
| Apr 25, 3:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Cherokee, Cleburne | 28 min |
| Apr 25, 3:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Chambers, Coosa, Tallapoosa | 64 min |
| Apr 25, 3:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Cherokee, Cleburne | 32 min |
| Apr 25, 3:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Randolph | 42 min |
| Apr 25, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Chambers | 30 min |
| Apr 25, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Lowndes | 63 min |
| Apr 25, 5:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Montgomery | 55 min |
| Apr 25, 6:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wilcox | 56 min |
| Apr 25, 6:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Montgomery | 52 min |
| Apr 25, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Macon | 65 min |
| Apr 25, 6:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Lee, Macon | 59 min |
| Apr 25, 6:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Bullock | 66 min |
| Apr 25, 6:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Barbour | 32 min |
| Apr 25, 7:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Russell | 41 min |
| Apr 25, 8:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marengo | 36 min |
| Apr 25, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wilcox | 32 min |
| Apr 25, 9:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wilcox | 59 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 | 49 |
| Tornado Warning | 5 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Marengo County5
- Montgomery County4
- Cleburne County4
- Choctaw County3
- Calhoun County3
- Wilcox County3
- Elmore County2
- Autauga County2
- Lee County2
- Clarke County2
- St. Clair County2
- Talladega County2
- Cherokee County2
- Chambers County2
- Macon County2
- Mobile County1
- Baldwin County1
- Covington County1
- Houston County1
- Washington County1
- Morgan County1
- Sumter County1
- Greene County1
- Hale County1
- Perry County1
- Dallas County1
- Tuscaloosa County1
- Colbert County1
- Bibb County1
- Shelby County1
- Jefferson County1
- Walker County1
- Cullman County1
- Etowah County1
- Coosa County1
- Tallapoosa County1
- Randolph County1
- Lowndes County1
- Bullock County1
- Barbour County1
1 more counties
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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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.