Flash Flood Watches in Alabama
380 flash flood 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 flash flood watches reaches back to 2005.
Flash Flood Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Flash Flood Watches
- 380
- Busiest year
- 200952 flash flood watches
- Average year
- 24over 16 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.
- Escambia County83
- Washington County83
- Clarke County77
- Conecuh County76
- Franklin County72
- Lawrence County72
- Colbert County71
- Lauderdale County71
- Limestone County71
- Covington County71
- Monroe County71
- Morgan County70
- Choctaw County70
- Marshall County69
- Cullman County68
- Jefferson County67
- DeKalb County67
- Jackson County67
- Bibb County66
- Tuscaloosa County66
- Elmore County65
- St. Clair County65
- Greene County64
- Hale County64
- Shelby County64
- Madison County64
- Clay County64
- Talladega County64
- Blount County63
- Chilton County63
- Sumter County63
- Calhoun County63
- Coosa County63
- Autauga County62
- Wilcox County62
- Geneva County62
- Randolph County62
- Butler County62
- Montgomery County61
- Houston County61
27 more counties
- Cleburne County61
- Walker County60
- Chambers County60
- Etowah County60
- Tallapoosa County60
- Crenshaw County60
- Perry County59
- Pickens County59
- Coffee County59
- Henry County59
- Lee County59
- Lowndes County58
- Fayette County58
- Lamar County58
- Dale County58
- Macon County58
- Dallas County57
- Marengo County57
- Winston County57
- Cherokee County57
- Marion County56
- Bullock County56
- Russell County55
- Barbour County53
- Pike County53
- Baldwin County50
- Mobile County50
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. Rebuilt daily.