Weather alerts in Alabama, 2019
3,945 weather alerts in 2019, 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 2019. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 3,945
- Warnings
- 1,241
- Watches
- 62
- Advisories
- 484
- Busiest month
- June607 alerts
- Busiest day
- April 14, 2019129 alerts
Over time
By month
The alerts
3,945 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 | 456 |
| Tornado Warning | 157 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 10 |
| Tornado Watch | 24 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 134 |
| Special Weather Statement | 1,981 |
| Flooding | |
| Areal Flood Warning | 68 |
| Flash Flood Warning | 46 |
| River Flood Warning | 127 |
| Flash Flood Watch | 9 |
| Flood Watch | 2 |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 221 |
| River Flood Advisory | 8 |
| Winter | |
| Winter Storm Warning | 3 |
| Winter Storm Watch | 2 |
| Winter Weather Advisory | 4 |
| Heat | |
| Excessive Heat Warning | 3 |
| Heat Advisory | 33 |
| Cold | |
| Freeze Warning | 27 |
| Freeze Watch | 10 |
| Frost Advisory | 9 |
| Wind and dust | |
| Wind Advisory | 37 |
| Fog and smoke | |
| Dense Fog Advisory | 74 |
| Tropical | |
| Tropical Storm Warning | 2 |
| Tropical Storm Watch | 1 |
| Coast and beach | |
| High Surf Warning | 1 |
| Coastal Flood Watch | 1 |
| Coastal Flood Advisory | 6 |
| High Surf Advisory | 8 |
| Coastal Flood Statement | 1 |
| Rip Current Statement | 42 |
| Marine | |
| Gale Warning | 6 |
| Special Marine Warning | 345 |
| Gale Watch | 3 |
| Marine Dense Fog Advisory | 30 |
| Small Craft Advisory | 54 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Mobile County334
- Baldwin County263
- Madison County247
- Colbert County212
- Lauderdale County210
- Lawrence County201
- Morgan County201
- Washington County196
- Limestone County192
- Cullman County182
- Choctaw County177
- Clarke County176
- Franklin County174
- Jackson County170
- Marshall County163
- Jefferson County160
- Greene County159
- DeKalb County159
- Sumter County158
- Hale County155
- Tuscaloosa County153
- Fayette County153
- Pickens County151
- Marengo County150
- Lamar County150
- Marion County143
- Shelby County142
- Walker County142
- Escambia County140
- Bibb County137
- Perry County132
- Winston County129
- St. Clair County128
- Covington County127
- Blount County126
- Elmore County120
- Houston County119
- Chilton County116
- Geneva County115
- Dallas County115
27 more counties
- Montgomery County115
- Conecuh County114
- Etowah County114
- Monroe County113
- Lowndes County113
- Crenshaw County112
- Autauga County111
- Wilcox County109
- Talladega County109
- Butler County108
- Cherokee County108
- Pike County105
- Calhoun County105
- Henry County103
- Macon County102
- Dale County101
- Russell County101
- Coffee County101
- Lee County98
- Coosa County94
- Tallapoosa County93
- Clay County92
- Barbour County91
- Cleburne County91
- Bullock County89
- Chambers County79
- Randolph County76
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.