Alert archive / Alabama / 1989
Weather alerts in Alabama, May 1989
20 weather alerts in May 1989, 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 1989. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 20
- Warnings
- 20
- Watches
- 0
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- May 20, 19896 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 4, 1:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Choctaw | 44 min |
| May 5, 1:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Chambers | 38 min |
| May 19, 12:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 49 min |
| May 19, 2:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 12 min |
| May 19, 3:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 47 min |
| May 19, 10:09 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Mobile | 2 hr |
| May 20, 11:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount, Cullman | 58 min |
| May 20, 11:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marion | 28 min |
| May 20, 12:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Shelby | 61 min |
| May 20, 12:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 36 min |
| May 20, 1:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marion | 58 min |
| May 22, 7:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb, Tuscaloosa | 53 min |
| May 22, 7:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Coosa | 43 min |
| May 22, 8:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lauderdale | 61 min |
| May 22, 11:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Madison, Morgan | 56 min |
| May 23, 11:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Perry | 46 min |
| May 23, 12:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marengo | 40 min |
| May 27, 1:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Limestone | 61 min |
| May 27, 3:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jackson | 64 min |
| May 27, 3:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Lowndes | 69 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 | 16 |
| Tornado Warning | 3 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 1 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Mobile County2
- Marion County2
- Choctaw County1
- Chambers County1
- Baldwin County1
- Washington County1
- Blount County1
- Cullman County1
- Shelby County1
- Jefferson County1
- Bibb County1
- Tuscaloosa County1
- Coosa County1
- Lauderdale County1
- Madison County1
- Morgan County1
- Perry County1
- Marengo County1
- Limestone County1
- Jackson County1
- Lowndes County1
Nearby
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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. Rebuilt daily.