Alert archive / Alabama / 1998
Weather alerts in Alabama, January 1998
62 weather alerts in January 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 January 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 62
- Warnings
- 59
- Watches
- 3
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- January 7, 199854 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 7, 4:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Conecuh, Covington, Escambia, Mobile, Washington | 6 hr |
| Jan 7, 4:55 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 65 min |
| Jan 7, 5:50 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 55 min |
| Jan 7, 6:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 60 min |
| Jan 7, 6:38 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Mobile, Washington | 3 hr |
| Jan 7, 7:10 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 20 min |
| Jan 7, 7:11 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marengo | 59 min |
| Jan 7, 7:39 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 3 hr |
| Jan 7, 7:53 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 52 min |
| Jan 7, 7:57 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia | 63 min |
| Jan 7, 8:08 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Monroe | 67 min |
| Jan 7, 8:30 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Fayette, Greene, Hale, Pickens, Tuscaloosa | 3 hr |
| Jan 7, 8:30 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Marengo, Sumter | 3 hr |
| Jan 7, 8:30 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Lamar, Marion | 3 hr |
| Jan 7, 8:33 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh | 57 min |
| Jan 7, 8:55 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Cullman, Lawrence | 6 hr |
| Jan 7, 8:55 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Limestone | 6 hr |
| Jan 7, 8:55 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Madison | 6 hr |
| Jan 7, 8:55 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 6 hr |
| Jan 7, 8:55 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Colbert, Franklin | 6 hr |
| Jan 7, 8:55 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Lauderdale | 6 hr |
| Jan 7, 8:55 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Blount, Walker | 6 hr |
| Jan 7, 8:55 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Autauga, Bibb, Chilton, Dallas, Perry, Shelby | 6 hr |
| Jan 7, 8:55 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Morgan, Winston | 6 hr |
| Jan 7, 8:55 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Lowndes | 6 hr |
| Jan 7, 9:01 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wilcox | 59 min |
| Jan 7, 9:05 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia | 60 min |
| Jan 7, 9:15 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barbour, Butler, Coffee, Covington, Crenshaw, Dale and 4 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 7, 9:38 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson, Shelby | 62 min |
| Jan 7, 9:40 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 60 min |
| Jan 7, 9:45 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Mobile, Washington | 3 hr |
| Jan 7, 10:09 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler | 61 min |
| Jan 7, 10:10 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Autauga, Lowndes | 50 min |
| Jan 7, 10:25 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 50 min |
| Jan 7, 10:37 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Clay, Cleburne, Randolph | 6 hr |
| Jan 7, 10:37 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Cherokee, DeKalb, Etowah, Marshall, St. Clair | 6 hr |
| Jan 7, 10:37 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Talladega | 6 hr |
| Jan 7, 10:37 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Jackson | 6 hr |
| Jan 7, 10:38 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Escambia | 112 min |
| Jan 7, 10:43 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Etowah | 17 min |
| Jan 7, 10:43 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 62 min |
| Jan 7, 10:53 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Marshall | 47 min |
| Jan 7, 10:55 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 110 min |
| Jan 7, 11:22 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Greene, Hale, Marengo, Tuscaloosa | 4 hr |
| Jan 7, 11:22 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Pickens, Sumter | 4 hr |
| Jan 7, 11:22 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Fayette, Lamar, Marion | 4 hr |
| Jan 7, 11:36 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jackson | 34 min |
| Jan 7, 12:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tallapoosa | 47 min |
| Jan 7, 12:25 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Barbour, Lee, Macon, Russell | 2 hr |
| Jan 7, 12:25 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Chambers, Tallapoosa | 2 hr |
| Jan 7, 12:25 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Pike | 2 hr |
| Jan 7, 12:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Barbour | 48 min |
| Jan 7, 12:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Russell | 47 min |
| Jan 7, 4:41 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 5 hr |
| Jan 18, 8:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Perry | 48 min |
| Jan 22, 4:46 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile, Washington | 64 min |
| Jan 22, 5:22 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke | 58 min |
| Jan 22, 6:09 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Monroe | 61 min |
| Jan 22, 9:19 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 46 min |
| Jan 22, 10:18 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 47 min |
| Jan 22, 10:44 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 56 min |
| Jan 22, 12:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Geneva | 6 hr |
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 | 25 |
| Tornado Warning | 5 |
| Tornado Watch | 3 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 29 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Baldwin County7
- Mobile County7
- Covington County5
- Escambia County4
- Washington County4
- Choctaw County3
- Marengo County3
- Barbour County3
- Conecuh County2
- Monroe County2
- Fayette County2
- Greene County2
- Hale County2
- Pickens County2
- Tuscaloosa County2
- Sumter County2
- Lamar County2
- Marion County2
- Jefferson County2
- Autauga County2
- Perry County2
- Shelby County2
- Lowndes County2
- Butler County2
- Geneva County2
- Pike County2
- St. Clair County2
- Etowah County2
- Marshall County2
- Jackson County2
- Tallapoosa County2
- Russell County2
- Cullman County1
- Lawrence County1
- Limestone County1
- Madison County1
- Colbert County1
- Franklin County1
- Lauderdale County1
- Blount County1
23 more counties
- Walker County1
- Bibb County1
- Chilton County1
- Dallas County1
- Morgan County1
- Winston County1
- Wilcox County1
- Coffee County1
- Crenshaw County1
- Dale County1
- Henry County1
- Houston County1
- Clay County1
- Cleburne County1
- Randolph County1
- Calhoun County1
- Cherokee County1
- DeKalb County1
- Talladega County1
- Lee County1
- Macon County1
- Chambers 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.