Alert archive / Alabama

Weather alerts in Russell County, Alabama

3,451 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Russell County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
3,451
Warnings
871
Watches
649
Advisories
866
Busiest year
2009223 alerts
Average year
88over 39 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 product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Sep 19, 2:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMX38 min
Sep 19, 2:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMX47 min
Aug 16, 10:16 AM CDTExtreme Heat WarningBMX35 hr
Jun 22, 4:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMX28 min
Jun 1, 4:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMX60 min
Jun 1, 4:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMX87 min
May 6, 11:30 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningBMX4 hr
May 6, 9:09 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningBMX3 hr
May 6, 5:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatBMX61 min
Mar 27, 10:58 AM CDTRed Flag WarningBMX32 hr
Mar 14, 10:24 PM CDTFreeze WarningBMX3 days
Mar 12, 3:46 AM CDTTornado WarningBMX28 min

Nearby

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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. Rebuilt daily.