Alert archive / Alabama / 1988
Weather alerts in Alabama, January 1988
24 weather alerts in January 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 January 1988. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 24
- Warnings
- 24
- Watches
- 0
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- January 19, 198818 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 18, 5:02 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Clarke, Washington | 43 min |
| Jan 18, 6:25 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Escambia, Monroe | 65 min |
| Jan 18, 6:25 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke | 65 min |
| Jan 19, 12:43 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Marion | 62 min |
| Jan 19, 12:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pickens | 59 min |
| Jan 19, 12:53 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Colbert, Franklin | 67 min |
| Jan 19, 1:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette | 64 min |
| Jan 19, 1:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lamar | 61 min |
| Jan 19, 2:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette | 61 min |
| Jan 19, 3:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Morgan | 62 min |
| Jan 19, 3:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cullman | 55 min |
| Jan 19, 3:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pickens | 60 min |
| Jan 19, 3:40 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Sumter | 50 min |
| Jan 19, 4:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Limestone, Madison | 54 min |
| Jan 19, 4:06 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Greene | 54 min |
| Jan 19, 5:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Perry | 54 min |
| Jan 19, 5:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb, Hale, Tuscaloosa | 54 min |
| Jan 19, 5:31 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Cullman | 29 min |
| Jan 19, 5:35 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Limestone, Madison, Morgan | 2 hr |
| Jan 19, 5:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount, Jefferson | 61 min |
| Jan 19, 5:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb, Shelby | 61 min |
| Jan 19, 6:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Madison | 20 min |
| Jan 19, 6:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marshall | 38 min |
| Jan 19, 8:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Cleburne | 62 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 | 18 |
| Tornado Warning | 5 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 1 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Madison County3
- Clarke County2
- Pickens County2
- Fayette County2
- Morgan County2
- Cullman County2
- Limestone County2
- Bibb County2
- Baldwin County1
- Washington County1
- Conecuh County1
- Escambia County1
- Monroe County1
- Marion County1
- Colbert County1
- Franklin County1
- Lamar County1
- Sumter County1
- Greene County1
- Perry County1
- Hale County1
- Tuscaloosa County1
- Blount County1
- Jefferson County1
- Shelby County1
- Marshall County1
- Calhoun County1
- Cleburne County1
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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.