Alert archive / Alabama / 1997
Weather alerts in Alabama, August 1997
25 weather alerts in August 1997, 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 August 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 25
- Warnings
- 24
- Watches
- 1
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- August 18, 19979 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 7:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jackson | 55 min |
| Aug 14, 3:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Talladega | 61 min |
| Aug 14, 5:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Elmore, Montgomery | 48 min |
| Aug 16, 7:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Henry | 43 min |
| Aug 18, 11:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cleburne | 61 min |
| Aug 18, 12:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Russell | 6 hr |
| Aug 18, 3:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Elmore, Montgomery | 33 min |
| Aug 18, 3:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Macon | 32 min |
| Aug 18, 4:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Montgomery | 48 min |
| Aug 18, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lowndes | 45 min |
| Aug 18, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Shelby | 49 min |
| Aug 18, 5:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chilton | 48 min |
| Aug 18, 6:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Dallas | 34 min |
| Aug 19, 5:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 31 min |
| Aug 19, 8:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lawrence | 69 min |
| Aug 20, 2:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lowndes, Montgomery | 45 min |
| Aug 20, 3:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Barbour | 69 min |
| Aug 20, 5:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 45 min |
| Aug 20, 7:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 56 min |
| Aug 20, 8:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 49 min |
| Aug 28, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Clay | 35 min |
| Aug 29, 4:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lauderdale, Limestone | 56 min |
| Aug 29, 4:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lauderdale, Limestone | 56 min |
| Aug 30, 4:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Monroe | 69 min |
| Aug 30, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke | 67 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 | 24 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 1 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Montgomery County4
- Elmore County2
- Lowndes County2
- Baldwin County2
- Lauderdale County2
- Limestone County2
- Jackson County1
- Talladega County1
- Henry County1
- Cleburne County1
- Russell County1
- Macon County1
- Shelby County1
- Chilton County1
- Dallas County1
- Covington County1
- Lawrence County1
- Barbour County1
- Mobile County1
- Clay County1
- Monroe County1
- Clarke 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. Rebuilt daily.