Excessive Heat Watches in Alabama
34 excessive heat watches since 1986. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of excessive heat watches reaches back to 2005.
Excessive Heat Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Excessive Heat Watches
- 34
- Busiest year
- 202320 excessive heat watches
- Average year
- 6over 6 years on file
Over time
By year
Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.
By month of the year
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Washington County16
- Choctaw County13
- Clarke County13
- Baldwin County13
- Mobile County13
- Escambia County12
- Covington County11
- Monroe County11
- Wilcox County11
- Conecuh County10
- Butler County9
- Crenshaw County9
- Geneva County7
- Houston County7
- Colbert County5
- Franklin County5
- Lauderdale County5
- Lawrence County5
- Coffee County5
- Dale County5
- Henry County5
- Cullman County4
- Limestone County4
- Madison County4
- Morgan County4
- DeKalb County2
- Jackson County2
- Marshall County2
- Autauga County1
- Bibb County1
- Chilton County1
- Dallas County1
- Elmore County1
- Greene County1
- Hale County1
- Lowndes County1
- Marengo County1
- Montgomery County1
- Perry County1
- Shelby County1
Nearby
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.