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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Crenshaw County, Alabama

436 severe thunderstorm warnings since 1986. An alert counts here when it covered this county. The archive of severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.

Crenshaw County and its neighbors

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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
436
Busiest year
200830 severe thunderstorm warnings
Average year
11over 39 years on file

Over time

By year

Before October 2007 these were issued for whole counties, and a storm crossing three counties was often three warnings; since then one polygon follows the storm. The count changed with the practice, not only with the weather.

Warning verification

How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.

From 2008 to 2025, 78% of hail, wind and damage reports in Crenshaw County fell inside a severe thunderstorm warning issued on average 21 minutes before, and 67% of the severe thunderstorm warnings had no report inside them.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200830970%967%19 min
200921767%667%23 min
201070100%0
201118478%540%30 min
201213469%250%37 min
20139278%367%15 min
201417288%0
201513285%0
201621957%1486%19 min
201716569%475%31 min
201810370%813%16 min
201913469%6100%22 min
2020231152%2592%12 min
2021201050%2190%21 min
202225964%1283%30 min
2023241442%2282%23 min
20248363%2100%33 min
202513285%250%39 min

Years from 2008, the first full year of storm-based warnings. The year still running is on its own page.

Verified by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow, which matches each storm-based warning with the local storm reports inside its polygon while it was in force, within 15 km of its edge: a tornado warning counts as verified on a tornado report, a severe thunderstorm warning on hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more, or wind damage, a flash flood warning on a flash flood report. The false alarm ratio is the share of warnings with no such report; "inside a warning" is the probability of detection, the share of reports that fell inside one; lead time runs from the warning's issue to each report inside it, counting zero for a report that came first. A warning with no report is not proof nothing happened: reports come from spotters, the public and damage surveys, and are thin where few people live.

The latest severe thunderstorm warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jul 18, 8:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOB32 min
Jul 18, 7:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOB52 min
Jun 18, 4:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOB40 min
May 6, 10:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOB50 min
Apr 28, 6:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOB21 min
Mar 16, 4:48 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOB42 min
Mar 12, 2:24 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOB50 min
Mar 12, 1:39 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOB51 min

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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.