Weather alerts in Alabama, 1998
1,239 weather alerts in 1998, 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 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 1,239
- Warnings
- 1,169
- Watches
- 70
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest month
- April280 alerts
- Busiest day
- March 8, 199879 alerts
Over time
By month
The alerts
1,239 alerts are too many to list on one page. Narrow it to a product above, to a month in the chart, or to a county.
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 | 827 |
| Tornado Warning | 232 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 27 |
| Tornado Watch | 43 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 110 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Baldwin County62
- Covington County62
- Barbour County56
- Shelby County55
- Jackson County55
- Mobile County54
- Escambia County53
- Tallapoosa County53
- Tuscaloosa County52
- Jefferson County52
- DeKalb County52
- Madison County51
- Cherokee County49
- Marshall County48
- Lauderdale County47
- Chilton County47
- Pike County47
- Etowah County47
- Conecuh County46
- Talladega County46
- Coosa County46
- Cullman County44
- Colbert County44
- Calhoun County44
- Butler County43
- Chambers County43
- Lee County42
- Montgomery County42
- Autauga County41
- Lowndes County41
- Macon County41
- Elmore County41
- Washington County40
- Limestone County40
- Bibb County40
- Winston County40
- Clay County40
- Cleburne County40
- St. Clair County39
- Lamar County38
27 more counties
- Blount County38
- Dallas County38
- Crenshaw County37
- Randolph County37
- Morgan County36
- Russell County36
- Bullock County36
- Marion County35
- Lawrence County35
- Perry County35
- Coffee County35
- Sumter County34
- Franklin County34
- Walker County33
- Choctaw County32
- Monroe County32
- Pickens County32
- Geneva County32
- Hale County30
- Clarke County30
- Fayette County28
- Greene County28
- Wilcox County28
- Dale County27
- Houston County27
- Henry County26
- Marengo County21
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
Nearby
Alerts in force nowTornadoes on recordThe radar archive19971999
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.