Alert archive / Alabama / Flash Flood Watches / 2018
Flash Flood Watches in Alabama, May 2018
5 flash flood watches in May 2018. 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 in May 2018. Tap one for its archive.
- Flash Flood Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- May 28, 20182 flash flood watches
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
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 | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 10:54 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | MOB | Baldwin, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington and 6 more | 5 days |
| May 26, 3:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | TAE | Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston | 70 hr |
| May 28, 2:34 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | HUN | Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Franklin, Jackson, Lauderdale and 5 more | 48 hr |
| May 28, 2:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | BMX | Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Calhoun and 27 more | 40 hr |
| May 30, 5:18 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | BMX | Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Calhoun, Chambers and 24 more | 14 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Autauga County2
- Bibb County2
- Blount County2
- Bullock County2
- Calhoun County2
- Chambers County2
- Cherokee County2
- Chilton County2
- Clay County2
- Cleburne County2
- Coosa County2
- Dallas County2
- Elmore County2
- Etowah County2
- Jefferson County2
- Lee County2
- Lowndes County2
- Macon County2
- Montgomery County2
- Perry County2
- Randolph County2
- Russell County2
- St. Clair County2
- Shelby County2
- Talladega County2
- Tallapoosa County2
- Tuscaloosa County2
- Baldwin County1
- Butler County1
- Choctaw County1
- Clarke County1
- Conecuh County1
- Covington County1
- Crenshaw County1
- Escambia County1
- Mobile County1
- Monroe County1
- Washington County1
- Wilcox County1
- Coffee County1
24 more counties
- Dale County1
- Geneva County1
- Henry County1
- Houston County1
- Colbert County1
- Cullman County1
- DeKalb County1
- Franklin County1
- Jackson County1
- Lauderdale County1
- Lawrence County1
- Limestone County1
- Madison County1
- Marshall County1
- Morgan County1
- Barbour County1
- Fayette County1
- Marion County1
- Pike County1
- Walker County1
- Winston County1
- Greene County1
- Hale County1
- Marengo County1
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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.