Alert archive / Alabama / 1998
Weather alerts in Alabama, February 1998
62 weather alerts in February 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 February 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 62
- Warnings
- 54
- Watches
- 8
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- February 17, 199824 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 11, 1:52 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 48 min |
| Feb 16, 12:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Coosa | 47 min |
| Feb 16, 12:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Chambers, Clay and 21 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 16, 4:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia | 60 min |
| Feb 16, 6:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Butler, Clarke, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington and 9 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 17, 12:48 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Dallas | 47 min |
| Feb 17, 1:13 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chilton | 47 min |
| Feb 17, 1:19 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Autauga | 46 min |
| Feb 17, 1:45 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Autauga | 50 min |
| Feb 17, 1:49 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Chilton | 56 min |
| Feb 17, 2:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Butler and 44 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 17, 2:18 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Shelby | 47 min |
| Feb 17, 2:22 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Coosa, Talladega | 63 min |
| Feb 17, 2:31 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Coosa, Talladega | 64 min |
| Feb 17, 2:37 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chilton | 18 min |
| Feb 17, 3:12 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chilton | 48 min |
| Feb 17, 3:36 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun | 64 min |
| Feb 17, 3:44 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Autauga, Lowndes | 46 min |
| Feb 17, 3:54 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Coosa | 46 min |
| Feb 17, 4:03 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tallapoosa | 47 min |
| Feb 17, 4:19 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Clay | 51 min |
| Feb 17, 4:37 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cleburne | 63 min |
| Feb 17, 4:44 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Randolph | 51 min |
| Feb 17, 5:04 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tallapoosa | 46 min |
| Feb 17, 5:25 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chambers | 50 min |
| Feb 17, 6:14 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chambers | 31 min |
| Feb 17, 4:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Cleburne | 62 min |
| Feb 17, 4:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Clay, Randolph | 62 min |
| Feb 22, 3:32 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 63 min |
| Feb 22, 3:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Mobile, Washington | 5 hr |
| Feb 22, 4:59 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 46 min |
| Feb 22, 5:06 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh | 64 min |
| Feb 22, 5:37 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler | 63 min |
| Feb 22, 7:16 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Dale | 44 min |
| Feb 26, 1:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pickens, Sumter | 49 min |
| Feb 26, 1:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee and 35 more | 4 hr |
| Feb 26, 2:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene, Pickens, Sumter | 48 min |
| Feb 26, 2:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Hale, Tuscaloosa | 58 min |
| Feb 26, 3:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 59 min |
| Feb 26, 3:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 35 min |
| Feb 26, 3:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 93 min |
| Feb 26, 3:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Dallas and 7 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 26, 3:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Perry | 59 min |
| Feb 26, 3:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Walker | 48 min |
| Feb 26, 3:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Shelby | 40 min |
| Feb 26, 4:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb | 31 min |
| Feb 26, 4:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Shelby | 45 min |
| Feb 26, 4:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Perry | 34 min |
| Feb 26, 4:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb, Chilton | 49 min |
| Feb 26, 4:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 66 min |
| Feb 26, 4:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 66 min |
| Feb 26, 5:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Calhoun, Chilton, Clay, Cleburne and 9 more | 4 hr |
| Feb 26, 5:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Talladega | 48 min |
| Feb 26, 5:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Shelby | 63 min |
| Feb 26, 5:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke | 60 min |
| Feb 26, 5:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Perry | 47 min |
| Feb 26, 5:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Dallas | 49 min |
| Feb 26, 5:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chilton | 44 min |
| Feb 26, 7:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington and 12 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 26, 7:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Elmore, Montgomery | 46 min |
| Feb 26, 8:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 62 min |
| Feb 26, 9:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Coffee | 47 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 | 49 |
| Tornado Warning | 5 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 4 |
| Tornado Watch | 4 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Chilton County9
- Coosa County8
- Autauga County7
- Talladega County7
- Shelby County7
- Butler County6
- Clay County6
- Cleburne County6
- Randolph County6
- Tallapoosa County6
- Perry County6
- Chambers County5
- Conecuh County5
- Elmore County5
- Escambia County5
- Lowndes County5
- Mobile County5
- Dallas County5
- Bibb County5
- Calhoun County5
- Baldwin County4
- Coffee County4
- Covington County4
- Crenshaw County4
- Dale County4
- Montgomery County4
- Clarke County4
- Washington County4
- Jefferson County4
- Tuscaloosa County4
- Barbour County3
- Bullock County3
- Geneva County3
- Lee County3
- Macon County3
- Pike County3
- Monroe County3
- Greene County3
- Hale County3
- St. Clair County3
27 more counties
- Walker County3
- Wilcox County3
- Pickens County3
- Sumter County3
- Choctaw County3
- Henry County2
- Houston County2
- Russell County2
- Blount County2
- Cherokee County2
- Colbert County2
- Cullman County2
- DeKalb County2
- Etowah County2
- Fayette County2
- Franklin County2
- Jackson County2
- Lamar County2
- Lawrence County2
- Limestone County2
- Madison County2
- Marengo County2
- Marion County2
- Marshall County2
- Morgan County2
- Winston County2
- Lauderdale 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.