Alert archive / Alabama / 1997
Weather alerts in Alabama, December 1997
10 weather alerts in December 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 December 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 10
- Warnings
- 9
- Watches
- 1
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- December 24, 19977 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 9, 10:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Coffee, Conecuh and 11 more | 6 hr |
| Dec 9, 10:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Geneva, Houston | 48 min |
| Dec 23, 10:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 35 min |
| Dec 24, 4:42 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 33 min |
| Dec 24, 5:34 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Monroe | 41 min |
| Dec 24, 6:12 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Geneva | 63 min |
| Dec 24, 6:20 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Geneva | 40 min |
| Dec 24, 6:59 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Houston | 31 min |
| Dec 24, 7:19 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Dale, Henry | 41 min |
| Dec 24, 8:21 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Barbour | 39 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 | 6 |
| Tornado Warning | 3 |
| Tornado Watch | 1 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
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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.