Alert archive / Alabama / 2002
Weather alerts in Alabama, October 2002
41 weather alerts in October 2002, 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 October 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 41
- Warnings
- 40
- Watches
- 1
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- October 29, 200212 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 4, 11:36 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Marshall | 24 min |
| Oct 4, 2:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Talladega | 35 min |
| Oct 4, 2:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Cleburne | 44 min |
| Oct 6, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 39 min |
| Oct 6, 5:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Colbert, Franklin, Lawrence | 41 min |
| Oct 6, 9:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Walker | 41 min |
| Oct 6, 10:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 47 min |
| Oct 7, 3:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Colbert | 28 min |
| Oct 7, 3:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lauderdale | 34 min |
| Oct 9, 12:11 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 2 hr | |
| Oct 10, 4:14 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 2 hr | |
| Oct 10, 4:14 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 2 hr | |
| Oct 15, 2:56 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 64 min | |
| Oct 15, 5:12 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 2 hr | |
| Oct 15, 5:12 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 2 hr | |
| Oct 15, 7:53 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 2 hr | |
| Oct 20, 2:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Montgomery | 31 min |
| Oct 20, 2:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | 51 min | |
| Oct 20, 3:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke, Monroe | 16 days |
| Oct 20, 4:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Monroe | 16 days |
| Oct 20, 6:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Covington | 36 min |
| Oct 20, 8:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | 34 min | |
| Oct 26, 4:43 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 62 min | |
| Oct 26, 4:43 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 62 min | |
| Oct 26, 8:53 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 67 min | |
| Oct 26, 1:38 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 97 min | |
| Oct 28, 7:23 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marengo | 52 min |
| Oct 28, 7:24 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | 21 min | |
| Oct 28, 9:56 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | 34 min | |
| Oct 29, 6:42 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | 63 min | |
| Oct 29, 7:40 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | 65 min | |
| Oct 29, 7:51 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | 54 min | |
| Oct 29, 8:04 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | 56 min | |
| Oct 29, 8:40 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | 50 min | |
| Oct 29, 8:49 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 116 min | |
| Oct 29, 8:49 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 116 min | |
| Oct 29, 9:35 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | 25 min | |
| Oct 29, 11:28 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 62 min | |
| Oct 29, 11:41 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | 64 min | |
| Oct 29, 12:05 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Butler, Coffee, Covington, Crenshaw, Dale, Geneva and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Oct 29, 12:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | 48 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 | 22 |
| Tornado Warning | 4 |
| Tornado Watch | 1 |
| Marine | |
| Special Marine Warning | 14 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Colbert County2
- Monroe County2
- Covington County2
- Marshall County1
- Talladega County1
- Calhoun County1
- Cleburne County1
- St. Clair County1
- Franklin County1
- Lawrence County1
- Walker County1
- Jefferson County1
- Lauderdale County1
- Montgomery County1
- Clarke County1
- Marengo County1
- Butler County1
- Coffee County1
- Crenshaw County1
- Dale County1
- Geneva County1
- Henry County1
- Houston County1
- Pike 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.