Weather alerts in Alabama, 2009

3,208 weather alerts in 2009, 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 2009. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 3,208
Warnings: 2,178
Watches: 233
Advisories: 531
Busiest month: May520 alerts
Busiest day: March 28, 2009106 alerts

Over time

By month

The alerts

3,208 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	966
Tornado Warning	296
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	24
Tornado Watch	51
Mesoscale Discussion	209
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	66
Flash Flood Warning	284
River Flood Warning	208
Flash Flood Watch	52
Flood Watch	8
River Flood Watch	7
Areal Flood Advisory	284
River Flood Advisory	6
Winter
Winter Storm Warning	2
Winter Storm Watch	2
Freezing Rain Advisory	1
Winter Weather Advisory	7
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	1
Excessive Heat Watch	1
Heat Advisory	12
Cold
Freeze Warning	19
Hard Freeze Warning	18
Wind Chill Warning	1
Freeze Watch	13
Hard Freeze Watch	15
Frost Advisory	14
Wind Chill Advisory	5
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	3
Lake Wind Advisory	50
Wind Advisory	35
Fire
Red Flag Warning	70
Fire Weather Watch	48
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	48
Freezing Fog Advisory	1
Tropical
Hurricane Warning	3
Inland Hurricane Warning	1
Inland Tropical Storm Warning	4
Tropical Storm Warning	4
Hurricane Watch	2
Inland Hurricane Watch	1
Inland Tropical Storm Watch	2
Hurricane Local Statement	2
Coast and beach
Coastal Flood Warning	4
Coastal Flood Watch	3
Coastal Flood Advisory	1
High Surf Advisory	1
Coastal Flood Statement	4
Marine
Gale Warning	7
Special Marine Warning	221
Gale Watch	3
Hurricane Force Wind Watch	1
Low Water Advisory	1
Marine Dense Fog Advisory	7
Small Craft Advisory	57
Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	1
Marine Weather Statement	51

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

27 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

Nearby

Alerts in force now Tornadoes on record The radar archive 2008 2010

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.