Alert archive / Alabama / Hale County
Weather alerts in Hale County, Alabama, 2022
178 weather alerts in 2022, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.
Hale County and its neighbors
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- Alerts
- 178
- Warnings
- 42
- Watches
- 30
- Advisories
- 38
- Busiest month
- March25 alerts
- Busiest day
- March 23, 20227 alerts
Over time
By month
Warning verification
How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.
2 of 4 tornado warnings covering Hale County in 2022 had a tornado report inside them; 4 of 6 tornado reports fell inside a warning, on average 19 minutes after it went out.
Hale County, 2022
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado warnings | 4 | 2 | 50% | 6 | 67% | 19 min |
| Severe thunderstorm warnings | 12 | 10 | 17% | 16 | 75% | 14 min |
| Flash flood warnings | 1 | 1 | 0% | 0 |
Each office's whole area, 2022
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS Birmingham, AL: tornado warnings | 67 | 33 | 51% | 90 | 70% | 16 min |
| NWS Birmingham, AL: severe thunderstorm warnings | 210 | 134 | 36% | 461 | 69% | 24 min |
| NWS Birmingham, AL: flash flood warnings | 50 | 31 | 38% | 112 | 79% | 107 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, 2:30 AM CST | Wind Advisory | BMX | 26 hr |
| Jan 1, 3:52 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Jan 1, 6:02 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 118 min |
| Jan 1, 9:11 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 64 min |
| Jan 1, 10:07 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Jan 1, 11:19 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 116 min |
| Jan 2, 2:19 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 116 min |
| Jan 9, 10:42 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
| Jan 15, 3:20 AM CST | Wind Advisory | BMX | 27 hr |
| Jan 15, 12:01 PM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | BMX | 33 hr |
| Feb 2, 2:19 AM CST | Flood Watch | BMX | 50 hr |
| Feb 2, 9:38 AM CST | River Flood Warning | BMX | 21 days |
| Feb 2, 6:54 PM CST | River Flood Warning | BMX | 14 hr |
| Feb 3, 9:53 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Feb 3, 11:40 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
| Feb 3, 1:50 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | 55 min |
| Feb 3, 1:52 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 83 min |
| Feb 3, 2:46 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | BMX | 29 min |
| Feb 16, 4:20 AM CST | Wind Advisory | BMX | 50 hr |
| Feb 17, 1:46 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Feb 17, 1:56 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 3 hr |
| Feb 17, 3:47 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 118 min |
| Feb 17, 6:06 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 84 min |
| Feb 18, 1:34 AM CST | River Flood Warning | BMX | 66 hr |
| Feb 22, 8:44 AM CST | River Flood Warning | BMX | 9 days |
| Feb 22, 8:56 AM CST | River Flood Warning | BMX | 8 days |
| Feb 24, 2:10 AM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | BMX | 8 hr |
| Mar 10, 3:00 PM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | BMX | 38 hr |
| Mar 11, 3:12 AM CST | Freeze Warning | BMX | 54 hr |
| Mar 11, 3:12 AM CST | Wind Advisory | BMX | 39 hr |
| Mar 13, 1:18 AM CST | Freeze Warning | BMX | 32 hr |
| Mar 16, 8:28 PM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | BMX | 14 hr |
| Mar 18, 10:57 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | BMX | 57 hr |
| Mar 21, 9:06 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | BMX | 7 days |
| Mar 21, 9:11 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | BMX | 7 days |
| Mar 21, 1:04 PM CDT | Flood Watch | BMX | 39 hr |
| Mar 21, 1:13 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | BMX | 38 hr |
| Mar 22, 12:42 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Mar 22, 2:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Mar 22, 5:57 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 93 min |
| Mar 22, 7:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
| Mar 22, 7:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | 2 hr |
| Mar 22, 7:49 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | 3 hr |
| Mar 22, 8:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | 19 min |
| Mar 22, 9:40 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Mar 22, 10:40 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | BMX | 67 hr |
| Mar 23, 6:38 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | BMX | 14 hr |
| Mar 29, 3:14 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | BMX | 49 hr |
| Mar 30, 3:39 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Mar 30, 5:29 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
| Mar 30, 6:19 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 86 min |
| Mar 30, 9:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | 59 min |
| Apr 3, 8:06 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | BMX | 3 days |
| Apr 5, 5:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | 44 min |
| Apr 5, 6:51 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
| Apr 6, 2:43 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | BMX | 6 hr |
| Apr 6, 11:28 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 3 hr |
| Apr 6, 1:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 10 hr |
| Apr 6, 2:58 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Apr 6, 5:06 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 114 min |
| Apr 6, 7:41 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Apr 13, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
| Apr 13, 8:40 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 65 min |
| Apr 13, 9:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | 57 min |
| Apr 13, 10:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | 19 min |
| Apr 16, 12:20 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | 40 min |
| Apr 16, 12:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | 43 min |
| Apr 16, 10:07 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | BMX | 4 days |
| Apr 16, 10:14 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | BMX | 5 days |
| Apr 16, 11:34 PM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | BMX | 8 hr |
| Apr 17, 8:32 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 118 min |
| May 2, 3:44 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | BMX | 5 hr |
| May 4, 4:12 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | BMX | 5 hr |
| May 6, 1:02 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | BMX | 6 hr |
| May 13, 8:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | 34 min |
| May 15, 5:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | 34 min |
| May 24, 12:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| May 24, 2:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | 30 min |
| May 24, 3:28 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 92 min |
| May 25, 7:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | 49 min |
| May 26, 10:36 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 114 min |
| Jun 2, 1:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | 40 min |
| Jun 5, 7:09 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | 36 min |
| Jun 8, 5:12 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jun 8, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 3 hr |
| Jun 9, 2:51 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | 39 min |
| Jun 12, 1:37 PM CDT | Heat Advisory | BMX | 6 days |
| Jun 14, 6:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | 35 min |
| Jun 15, 4:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 3 hr |
| Jun 15, 5:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | 33 min |
| Jun 15, 6:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | 30 min |
| Jun 15, 7:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | 33 min |
| Jun 15, 7:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | 14 min |
| Jun 15, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| Jun 15, 9:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jun 17, 5:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | 44 min |
| Jun 17, 5:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | 34 min |
| Jun 22, 2:25 AM CDT | Heat Advisory | BMX | 16 hr |
| Jun 23, 12:46 PM CDT | Heat Advisory | BMX | 6 hr |
| Jun 25, 3:01 AM CDT | Heat Advisory | BMX | 18 hr |
| Jun 25, 3:44 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 61 min |
| Jun 25, 4:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | 37 min |
| Jun 28, 10:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | 29 min |
| Jul 4, 3:11 PM CDT | Heat Advisory | BMX | 5 days |
| Jul 9, 2:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 87 min |
| Jul 9, 3:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Jul 9, 5:35 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 115 min |
| Jul 9, 6:39 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | 51 min |
| Jul 9, 7:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | 63 min |
| Jul 9, 7:32 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 118 min |
| Jul 9, 8:09 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | 81 min |
| Jul 13, 12:36 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 84 min |
| Jul 13, 1:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Jul 13, 3:10 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | 35 min |
| Jul 13, 3:41 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 94 min |
| Jul 13, 5:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | 21 min |
| Jul 13, 5:41 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jul 19, 11:47 AM CDT | Heat Advisory | BMX | 55 hr |
| Jul 21, 4:11 AM CDT | Excessive Heat Warning | BMX | 15 hr |
| Jul 21, 3:20 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 85 min |
| Jul 21, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Jul 21, 4:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | 63 min |
| Jul 21, 5:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | 44 min |
| Jul 21, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | 41 min |
| Jul 21, 7:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | 54 min |
| Jul 21, 7:23 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 97 min |
| Jul 21, 8:51 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | 3 hr |
| Aug 7, 12:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | 23 min |
| Aug 8, 3:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | 18 min |
| Aug 11, 7:50 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | 55 min |
| Aug 24, 1:18 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | 6 hr |
| Aug 25, 4:17 AM CDT | Flood Watch | BMX | 15 hr |
| Aug 26, 2:32 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | BMX | 6 hr |
| Aug 31, 1:06 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | BMX | 8 hr |
| Sep 26, 3:18 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | BMX | 23 hr |
| Sep 27, 2:12 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | BMX | 5 hr |
| Sep 27, 2:12 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | BMX | 29 hr |
| Sep 28, 2:18 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | BMX | 13 hr |
| Sep 29, 2:59 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | BMX | 16 hr |
| Oct 12, 7:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | 38 min |
| Oct 12, 7:41 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | 49 min |
| Oct 12, 7:42 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Oct 13, 1:26 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | 49 min |
| Oct 17, 3:04 AM CDT | Freeze Watch | BMX | 23 hr |
| Oct 17, 1:13 PM CDT | Freeze Watch | BMX | 37 hr |
| Oct 18, 2:16 AM CDT | Freeze Warning | BMX | 31 hr |
| Oct 19, 2:23 AM CDT | Freeze Warning | BMX | 31 hr |
| Oct 25, 11:21 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Oct 25, 1:42 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 3 hr |
| Oct 25, 3:23 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Oct 31, 3:53 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | BMX | 5 hr |
| Oct 31, 9:28 PM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | BMX | 12 hr |
| Nov 12, 2:27 AM CST | Freeze Warning | BMX | 24 hr |
| Nov 13, 3:19 AM CST | Freeze Warning | BMX | 30 hr |
| Nov 25, 9:07 PM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | BMX | 10 hr |
| Nov 26, 1:38 AM CST | Wind Advisory | BMX | 31 hr |
| Nov 29, 3:35 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 115 min |
| Nov 29, 4:42 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Nov 29, 8:11 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 64 min |
| Nov 29, 9:45 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | 35 min |
| Nov 29, 10:23 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 67 min |
| Nov 29, 10:52 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Nov 29, 11:33 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 87 min |
| Nov 30, 1:57 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | 3 hr |
| Nov 30, 2:15 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Dec 3, 6:28 PM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | BMX | 14 hr |
| Dec 7, 11:39 PM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | BMX | 9 hr |
| Dec 10, 12:06 AM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | BMX | 8 hr |
| Dec 10, 10:02 PM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | BMX | 11 hr |
| Dec 11, 11:37 PM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | BMX | 9 hr |
| Dec 13, 8:48 AM CST | River Flood Warning | BMX | 6 days |
| Dec 13, 11:59 AM CST | Flood Watch | BMX | 36 hr |
| Dec 14, 12:22 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 10 hr |
| Dec 14, 5:01 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 89 min |
| Dec 20, 2:26 AM CST | Wind Chill Watch | BMX | 36 hr |
| Dec 20, 2:50 AM CST | Hard Freeze Watch | BMX | 24 hr |
| Dec 21, 2:58 AM CST | Hard Freeze Warning | BMX | 5 days |
| Dec 21, 2:09 PM CST | Wind Chill Advisory | BMX | 70 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 | 12 |
| Tornado Warning | 4 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 7 |
| Tornado Watch | 13 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 44 |
| Special Weather Statement | 24 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 1 |
| River Flood Warning | 14 |
| Flood Watch | 4 |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 5 |
| Winter | |
| Winter Weather Advisory | 2 |
| Heat | |
| Excessive Heat Warning | 1 |
| Heat Advisory | 6 |
| Cold | |
| Freeze Warning | 6 |
| Hard Freeze Warning | 1 |
| Freeze Watch | 2 |
| Hard Freeze Watch | 1 |
| Wind Chill Watch | 1 |
| Wind Chill Advisory | 1 |
| Wind and dust | |
| Wind Advisory | 8 |
| Fire | |
| Red Flag Warning | 3 |
| Fire Weather Watch | 2 |
| Fog and smoke | |
| Dense Fog Advisory | 16 |
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.