Weather alerts in Alabama, 2003
1,738 weather alerts in 2003, 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 2003. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 1,738
- Warnings
- 1,436
- Watches
- 93
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest month
- May549 alerts
- Busiest day
- May 2, 2003114 alerts
Over time
By month
The alerts
1,738 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 | 794 |
| Tornado Warning | 265 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 34 |
| Tornado Watch | 59 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 209 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 156 |
| Marine | |
| Special Marine Warning | 221 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Jefferson County140
- Sumter County116
- Tuscaloosa County115
- Baldwin County112
- Shelby County109
- Dallas County108
- Marengo County107
- Hale County106
- Lamar County106
- Madison County106
- Greene County105
- Talladega County104
- Pickens County104
- Perry County103
- St. Clair County103
- Jackson County103
- Bibb County102
- Choctaw County101
- Washington County98
- Lauderdale County97
- Marion County96
- Tallapoosa County95
- Monroe County95
- DeKalb County95
- Clarke County94
- Fayette County94
- Montgomery County94
- Marshall County94
- Chilton County93
- Mobile County91
- Calhoun County91
- Lowndes County90
- Lawrence County89
- Wilcox County89
- Limestone County88
- Walker County88
- Clay County87
- Cleburne County86
- Colbert County85
- Blount County85
27 more counties
- Cullman County85
- Autauga County85
- Escambia County84
- Coosa County83
- Franklin County83
- Macon County83
- Chambers County83
- Butler County82
- Conecuh County81
- Covington County81
- Randolph County81
- Winston County80
- Morgan County79
- Elmore County79
- Lee County79
- Crenshaw County78
- Cherokee County78
- Russell County77
- Barbour County76
- Pike County74
- Bullock County72
- Etowah County71
- Coffee County68
- Geneva County64
- Dale County59
- Henry County57
- Houston County54
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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.