Weather alerts in Elmore County, Alabama, 2008

219 weather alerts in 2008, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Elmore County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2008. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 219
Warnings: 73
Watches: 45
Advisories: 58
Busiest month: February35 alerts
Busiest day: August 24, 200817 alerts

Over time

By month

Warning verification

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

4 of 12 tornado warnings covering Elmore County in 2008 had a tornado report inside them; 5 of 5 tornado reports fell inside a warning, on average 26 minutes after it went out.

Elmore County, 2008

	Warnings	With a report	False alarm ratio	Reports	Inside a warning	Mean lead time
Tornado warnings	12	4	67%	5	100%	26 min
Severe thunderstorm warnings	32	18	44%	19	58%	13 min
Flash flood warnings	0			0

Each office's whole area, 2008

	Warnings	With a report	False alarm ratio	Reports	Inside a warning	Mean lead time
NWS Birmingham, AL: tornado warnings	202	29	86%	87	67%	18 min
NWS Birmingham, AL: severe thunderstorm warnings	494	184	63%	585	56%	23 min
NWS Birmingham, AL: flash flood warnings	17	5	71%	19	26%	61 min

An office's figures cover every county it serves, including across state lines.

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 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	Lasted
Jan 1, 6:03 AM CST	Fire Weather Watch	BMX	8 hr
Jan 1, 1:36 PM CST	Red Flag Warning	BMX	28 hr
Jan 1, 2:00 PM CST	Hard Freeze Warning	BMX	44 hr
Jan 2, 2:33 PM CST	Fire Weather Watch	BMX	3 hr
Jan 2, 6:02 PM CST	Red Flag Warning	BMX	24 hr
Jan 3, 7:52 AM CST	Fire Weather Watch	BMX	22 hr
Jan 4, 5:56 AM CST	Red Flag Warning	BMX	11 hr
Jan 10, 4:21 AM CST	Lake Wind Advisory	BMX	16 hr
Jan 10, 3:05 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	115 min
Jan 10, 5:16 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr
Jan 10, 7:52 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	53 min
Jan 10, 9:38 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	67 min
Jan 18, 4:10 AM CST	Winter Storm Watch	BMX	17 hr
Jan 18, 8:51 PM CST	Heavy Snow Warning	BMX	16 hr
Jan 20, 3:55 AM CST	Red Flag Warning	BMX	13 hr
Jan 20, 5:51 PM CST	Fire Weather Watch	BMX	10 hr
Jan 21, 4:01 AM CST	Red Flag Warning	BMX	13 hr
Jan 24, 6:11 AM CST	Fire Weather Watch	BMX	23 hr
Jan 24, 10:37 AM CST	Lake Wind Advisory	BMX	6 hr
Jan 25, 4:49 AM CST	Red Flag Warning	BMX	8 hr
Jan 28, 8:22 PM CST	Lake Wind Advisory	BMX	23 hr
Jan 29, 3:46 AM CST	Wind Advisory	BMX	22 hr
Jan 29, 3:19 PM CST	Fire Weather Watch	BMX	11 hr
Jan 30, 1:59 AM CST	Red Flag Warning	BMX	16 hr
Jan 31, 6:20 AM CST	Lake Wind Advisory	BMX	16 hr
Feb 5, 2:05 PM CST	Lake Wind Advisory	BMX	28 hr
Feb 6, 4:06 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr
Feb 6, 6:10 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
Feb 6, 7:40 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	65 min
Feb 10, 6:02 AM CST	Red Flag Warning	BMX	11 hr
Feb 10, 5:13 PM CST	Fire Weather Watch	BMX	12 hr
Feb 11, 5:08 AM CST	Red Flag Warning	BMX	12 hr
Feb 12, 4:13 AM CST	Lake Wind Advisory	BMX	36 hr
Feb 12, 12:34 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr
Feb 12, 6:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	32 min
Feb 13, 5:27 AM CST	Fire Weather Watch	BMX	24 hr
Feb 14, 5:50 AM CST	Red Flag Warning	BMX	11 hr
Feb 17, 4:08 AM CST	Lake Wind Advisory	BMX	14 hr
Feb 17, 9:43 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	62 min
Feb 17, 11:24 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	66 min
Feb 17, 12:14 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	91 min
Feb 17, 12:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	62 min
Feb 17, 12:32 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr
Feb 17, 1:09 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	51 min
Feb 17, 1:31 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	44 min
Feb 17, 2:31 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	44 min
Feb 17, 2:31 PM CST	Tornado Warning Emergency	BMX	59 min
Feb 17, 2:45 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	90 min
Feb 17, 2:49 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	56 min
Feb 17, 3:26 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	34 min
Feb 19, 12:26 PM CST	Wind Advisory	BMX	6 hr
Feb 22, 1:40 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	35 min
Feb 22, 1:44 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr
Feb 22, 2:11 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	34 min
Feb 22, 3:58 AM CST	Flash Flood Watch	BMX	6 hr
Feb 26, 4:41 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr
Feb 26, 5:25 AM CST	Lake Wind Advisory	BMX	15 hr
Feb 26, 6:09 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	36 min
Feb 26, 6:45 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	30 min
Feb 27, 3:19 AM CST	Lake Wind Advisory	BMX	15 hr
Mar 3, 4:13 AM CST	Lake Wind Advisory	BMX	14 hr
Mar 3, 6:03 PM CST	Wind Advisory	BMX	12 hr
Mar 4, 1:25 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr
Mar 4, 2:30 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	90 min
Mar 4, 4:00 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	45 min
Mar 4, 4:55 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	95 min
Mar 4, 5:50 AM CST	Lake Wind Advisory	BMX	12 hr
Mar 7, 4:36 AM CST	Wind Advisory	BMX	2 hr
Mar 7, 12:13 PM CST	Snow Advisory	BMX	22 hr
Mar 8, 3:14 AM CST	Lake Wind Advisory	BMX	13 hr
Mar 14, 4:37 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	23 min
Mar 14, 7:11 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	64 min
Mar 15, 12:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr
Mar 15, 6:45 AM CDT	Lake Wind Advisory	BMX	12 hr
Mar 15, 10:02 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr
Mar 15, 12:22 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	83 min
Mar 17, 4:04 AM CDT	Lake Wind Advisory	BMX	15 hr
Mar 18, 3:54 AM CDT	Lake Wind Advisory	BMX	39 hr
Mar 19, 7:08 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
Mar 20, 4:54 PM CDT	Frost Advisory	BMX	15 hr
Mar 21, 11:31 AM CDT	Red Flag Warning	BMX	6 hr
Mar 22, 5:44 AM CDT	Fire Weather Watch	BMX	36 hr
Mar 22, 3:32 PM CDT	Freeze Watch	BMX	12 hr
Mar 22, 3:32 PM CDT	Freeze Watch	BMX	45 hr
Mar 23, 3:28 AM CDT	Freeze Warning	BMX	20 hr
Mar 23, 5:08 AM CDT	Fire Weather Watch	BMX	37 hr
Mar 23, 5:08 AM CDT	Red Flag Warning	BMX	13 hr
Mar 24, 5:55 AM CDT	Red Flag Warning	BMX	12 hr
Mar 24, 1:01 PM CDT	Freeze Warning	BMX	20 hr
Mar 24, 3:13 PM CDT	Fire Weather Watch	BMX	15 hr
Mar 25, 6:13 AM CDT	Red Flag Warning	BMX	13 hr
Mar 29, 2:30 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
Apr 3, 12:16 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	59 min
Apr 4, 3:58 AM CDT	Lake Wind Advisory	BMX	15 hr
Apr 4, 1:27 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	9 hr
Apr 4, 3:17 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	88 min
Apr 4, 4:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	40 min
Apr 4, 4:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	66 min
Apr 4, 5:02 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	88 min
Apr 4, 5:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	42 min
Apr 4, 5:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	38 min
Apr 4, 6:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	31 min
Apr 11, 9:54 AM CDT	Lake Wind Advisory	BMX	8 hr
Apr 11, 3:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr
Apr 11, 7:48 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	57 min
Apr 11, 10:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	41 min
Apr 12, 5:00 AM CDT	Freeze Watch	BMX	56 hr
Apr 12, 6:57 PM CDT	Lake Wind Advisory	BMX	25 hr
Apr 14, 3:53 AM CDT	Lake Wind Advisory	BMX	14 hr
Apr 14, 1:06 PM CDT	Freeze Warning	BMX	19 hr
Apr 15, 2:58 PM CDT	Frost Advisory	BMX	17 hr
Apr 25, 5:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	32 min
Apr 25, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	30 min
Apr 28, 2:49 PM CDT	Fire Weather Watch	BMX	15 hr
Apr 29, 5:44 AM CDT	Red Flag Warning	BMX	12 hr
Apr 30, 5:31 AM CDT	Red Flag Warning	BMX	12 hr
May 3, 7:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr
May 7, 5:37 PM CDT	Lake Wind Advisory	BMX	25 hr
May 8, 10:07 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	83 min
May 8, 3:13 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
May 11, 1:06 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	84 min
May 11, 1:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	52 min
May 11, 1:37 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr
May 11, 3:40 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	95 min
May 11, 5:16 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	BMX	14 hr
May 20, 11:53 AM CDT	Lake Wind Advisory	BMX	7 hr
Jun 1, 4:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	25 min
Jun 9, 7:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	31 min
Jun 10, 11:26 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	64 min
Jun 10, 1:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	26 min
Jun 11, 3:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	24 min
Jun 11, 5:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	37 min
Jun 11, 5:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	27 min
Jun 12, 11:51 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	54 min
Jun 13, 5:37 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	3 hr
Jun 14, 3:59 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	3 hr
Jun 23, 1:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	34 min
Jun 29, 1:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr
Jun 29, 4:18 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	57 min
Jun 29, 4:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	32 min
Jun 29, 5:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	50 min
Jul 5, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	45 min
Jul 12, 1:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	37 min
Jul 13, 1:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	47 min
Jul 22, 3:02 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	118 min
Jul 23, 5:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	40 min
Jul 26, 11:41 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	3 hr
Aug 2, 4:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr
Aug 2, 7:27 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
Aug 7, 2:44 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	91 min
Aug 13, 3:02 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr
Aug 22, 10:00 AM CDT	Lake Wind Advisory	BMX	21 hr
Aug 22, 3:12 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	BMX	44 hr
Aug 22, 3:38 PM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	BMX	33 hr
Aug 23, 7:06 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	84 min
Aug 23, 7:40 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr
Aug 23, 8:51 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	6 hr
Aug 23, 9:13 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	92 min
Aug 24, 2:00 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	90 min
Aug 24, 2:51 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	4 hr
Aug 24, 8:12 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	33 min
Aug 24, 8:26 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	34 min
Aug 24, 10:11 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
Aug 24, 11:40 AM CDT	Lake Wind Advisory	BMX	7 hr
Aug 24, 11:47 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr
Aug 24, 1:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	24 min
Aug 24, 1:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	33 min
Aug 24, 2:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	30 min
Aug 24, 2:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	33 min
Aug 24, 2:55 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	95 min
Aug 24, 3:24 PM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	BMX	43 hr
Aug 25, 7:28 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	13 hr
Aug 25, 7:57 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	33 min
Aug 25, 10:26 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	64 min
Aug 25, 2:07 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	53 min
Aug 25, 6:14 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	91 min
Aug 25, 8:07 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	3 hr
Aug 31, 3:23 PM CDT	Lake Wind Advisory	BMX	29 hr
Sep 7, 3:49 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	BMX	5 hr
Sep 8, 5:56 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	3 hr
Sep 14, 4:18 AM CDT	Lake Wind Advisory	BMX	14 hr
Oct 1, 4:20 AM CDT	Red Flag Warning	BMX	14 hr
Oct 17, 11:55 PM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	BMX	4 hr
Oct 23, 8:37 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	BMX	7 hr
Oct 25, 12:51 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	BMX	8 hr
Oct 26, 3:13 PM CDT	Red Flag Warning	BMX	27 hr
Oct 27, 2:16 AM CDT	Lake Wind Advisory	BMX	16 hr
Oct 27, 4:00 AM CDT	Freeze Watch	BMX	23 hr
Oct 28, 3:08 AM CDT	Freeze Warning	BMX	30 hr
Oct 28, 5:16 AM CDT	Red Flag Warning	BMX	13 hr
Oct 29, 3:02 AM CDT	Freeze Warning	BMX	29 hr
Nov 14, 12:35 AM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	BMX	8 hr
Nov 14, 8:15 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
Nov 15, 3:53 AM CST	Lake Wind Advisory	BMX	13 hr
Nov 18, 3:31 AM CST	Lake Wind Advisory	BMX	13 hr
Nov 19, 3:32 AM CST	Red Flag Warning	BMX	12 hr
Nov 20, 3:35 PM CST	Fire Weather Watch	BMX	23 hr
Nov 21, 2:57 PM CST	Red Flag Warning	BMX	27 hr
Nov 24, 11:47 AM CST	Lake Wind Advisory	BMX	8 hr
Nov 30, 5:16 AM CST	Lake Wind Advisory	BMX	10 hr
Dec 1, 12:43 AM CST	Lake Wind Advisory	BMX	14 hr
Dec 9, 6:01 AM CST	Lake Wind Advisory	BMX	24 hr
Dec 9, 9:51 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	54 min
Dec 10, 1:25 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	65 min
Dec 10, 1:41 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr
Dec 10, 3:31 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	59 min
Dec 10, 5:29 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	61 min
Dec 10, 6:47 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr
Dec 10, 3:24 PM CST	Flash Flood Watch	BMX	20 hr
Dec 10, 4:01 PM CST	Lake Wind Advisory	BMX	29 hr
Dec 14, 5:28 AM CST	Lake Wind Advisory	BMX	12 hr
Dec 18, 6:01 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	BMX	13 hr
Dec 21, 1:04 AM CST	Lake Wind Advisory	BMX	17 hr
Dec 21, 3:48 AM CST	Fire Weather Watch	BMX	24 hr
Dec 22, 4:14 AM CST	Red Flag Warning	BMX	14 hr
Dec 23, 10:40 PM CST	Lake Wind Advisory	BMX	19 hr
Dec 24, 5:21 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	84 min
Dec 27, 4:43 AM CST	Lake Wind Advisory	BMX	25 hr
Dec 30, 2:58 PM CST	Lake Wind Advisory	BMX	27 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
Severe Thunderstorm Warning	32
Tornado Warning	12
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	7
Tornado Watch	15
Mesoscale Discussion	43
Flooding
Flash Flood Watch	4
Areal Flood Advisory	5
Winter
Heavy Snow Warning	1
Winter Storm Watch	1
Snow Advisory	1
Cold
Freeze Warning	5
Hard Freeze Warning	1
Freeze Watch	4
Frost Advisory	2
Wind and dust
Lake Wind Advisory	38
Wind Advisory	7
Fire
Red Flag Warning	22
Fire Weather Watch	14
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	5

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

Nearby

Alerts in force now Tornadoes on record Forecast The radar archive 2007 2009

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.