Alert archive / Alabama / 2016
Weather alerts in Alabama, October 2016
18 weather alerts in October 2016, 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 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 18
- Warnings
- 5
- Watches
- 0
- Advisories
- 9
- Busiest day
- October 20, 20166 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 5, 3:19 PM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | MOB | 43 hr | |
| Oct 7, 3:17 PM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | MOB | 19 hr | |
| Oct 8, 3:54 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | HUN | Colbert, Cullman, Franklin, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone and 2 more | 14 hr |
| Oct 8, 3:56 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | BMX | Blount, Fayette, Jefferson, Lamar, Marion, Pickens and 2 more | 14 hr |
| Oct 8, 6:02 AM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | MOB | 28 hr | |
| Oct 9, 3:11 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | HUN | Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Franklin, Jackson, Lauderdale and 6 more | 15 hr |
| Oct 9, 3:56 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | BMX | Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Chilton, Clay and 18 more | 14 hr |
| Oct 18, 6:47 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | MOB | Butler, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw, Escambia, Monroe and 1 more | 2 hr |
| Oct 19, 5:00 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | BMX | Barbour, Bullock, Lee, Lowndes, Macon, Montgomery and 2 more | 4 hr |
| Oct 19, 6:36 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | MOB | Baldwin, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington and 6 more | 2 hr |
| Oct 19, 9:10 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | MOB | Baldwin, Butler, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw, Escambia and 1 more | 50 min |
| Oct 20, 4:52 AM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | MOB | 53 hr | |
| Oct 20, 8:12 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | MOB | Baldwin, Conecuh, Covington, Escambia, Mobile | 90 min |
| Oct 20, 12:17 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Colbert, Cullman, Fayette, Franklin, Lamar, Lauderdale and 7 more | 2 hr |
| Oct 20, 1:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Colbert | 28 min |
| Oct 20, 2:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Colbert | 47 min |
| Oct 20, 3:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Morgan | 33 min |
| Oct 21, 4:12 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | BMX | Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Calhoun and 32 more | 14 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 | |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 1 |
| Special Weather Statement | 3 |
| Fire | |
| Red Flag Warning | 5 |
| Fog and smoke | |
| Dense Fog Advisory | 5 |
| Marine | |
| Small Craft Advisory | 4 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Colbert County5
- Morgan County4
- Fayette County4
- Lamar County4
- Marion County4
- Pickens County4
- Walker County4
- Conecuh County4
- Covington County4
- Escambia County4
- Cullman County3
- Franklin County3
- Lauderdale County3
- Lawrence County3
- Limestone County3
- Winston County3
- Blount County3
- Jefferson County3
- Tuscaloosa County3
- Butler County3
- Crenshaw County3
- Monroe County3
- Baldwin County3
- Bibb County2
- Calhoun County2
- Cherokee County2
- Chilton County2
- Clay County2
- Cleburne County2
- Coosa County2
- Etowah County2
- Greene County2
- Hale County2
- Perry County2
- Randolph County2
- St. Clair County2
- Shelby County2
- Sumter County2
- Talladega County2
- Wilcox County2
22 more counties
- Barbour County2
- Bullock County2
- Lee County2
- Lowndes County2
- Macon County2
- Montgomery County2
- Pike County2
- Russell County2
- Mobile County2
- DeKalb County1
- Jackson County1
- Madison County1
- Marshall County1
- Choctaw County1
- Clarke County1
- Washington County1
- Autauga County1
- Chambers County1
- Dallas County1
- Elmore County1
- Marengo County1
- Tallapoosa 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.