Weather alerts in Alabama, 2012
3,895 weather alerts in 2012, 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 2012. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 3,895
- Warnings
- 1,558
- Watches
- 148
- Advisories
- 498
- Busiest month
- July802 alerts
- Busiest day
- May 6, 201290 alerts
Over time
By month
The alerts
3,895 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.
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Madison County268
- Lawrence County255
- Geneva County238
- Colbert County230
- Lauderdale County229
- Limestone County226
- Jefferson County224
- Coffee County221
- Houston County220
- Dale County213
- Washington County208
- Jackson County208
- Marshall County206
- Shelby County205
- Morgan County205
- Marion County202
- Franklin County199
- Clarke County198
- Tuscaloosa County195
- Walker County195
- Henry County194
- Escambia County193
- Montgomery County193
- DeKalb County192
- Lowndes County190
- Winston County190
- Lee County188
- Elmore County188
- Lamar County188
- Talladega County188
- Tallapoosa County187
- Covington County186
- Monroe County184
- Russell County181
- Autauga County181
- Chambers County181
- Chilton County181
- St. Clair County181
- Sumter County181
- Cullman County181
27 more counties
- Conecuh County179
- Calhoun County178
- Clay County178
- Greene County177
- Barbour County176
- Dallas County176
- Macon County175
- Mobile County175
- Bibb County174
- Hale County173
- Pickens County173
- Choctaw County172
- Bullock County171
- Fayette County170
- Pike County169
- Randolph County167
- Perry County165
- Blount County164
- Etowah County163
- Coosa County162
- Baldwin County161
- Crenshaw County160
- Wilcox County160
- Butler County158
- Cherokee County158
- Cleburne County156
- Marengo County148
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
Nearby
Alerts in force nowTornadoes on recordThe radar archive20112013
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.