Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings / 2021
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, May 2021
59 severe thunderstorm warnings in May 2021. 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 severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 2021. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
- 59
- Busiest day
- May 4, 202134 severe thunderstorm warnings
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 2, 3:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke, Washington | 33 min |
| May 3, 2:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh, Covington | 49 min |
| May 3, 1:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Coffee | 63 min |
| May 3, 2:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pickens | 66 min |
| May 3, 6:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Autauga, Elmore, Montgomery | 49 min |
| May 3, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chambers, Lee | 41 min |
| May 3, 7:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Elmore, Montgomery | 43 min |
| May 3, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb, Chilton, Perry | 32 min |
| May 3, 7:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Elmore, Macon, Montgomery | 47 min |
| May 4, 9:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Jackson | 26 min |
| May 4, 9:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Winston | 38 min |
| May 4, 9:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Cullman, Morgan | 39 min |
| May 4, 9:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | DeKalb, Jackson | 36 min |
| May 4, 9:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | DeKalb | 24 min |
| May 4, 10:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount | 23 min |
| May 4, 11:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Cullman | 42 min |
| May 4, 11:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson, Walker | 50 min |
| May 4, 11:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount, Jefferson, St. Clair | 26 min |
| May 4, 12:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun, St. Clair, Talladega | 46 min |
| May 4, 12:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson, St. Clair, Shelby | 28 min |
| May 4, 12:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Cherokee, Cleburne, Talladega | 64 min |
| May 4, 1:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson, Shelby | 30 min |
| May 4, 3:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Sumter | 55 min |
| May 4, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke, Washington | 65 min |
| May 4, 4:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 29 min |
| May 4, 4:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene | 55 min |
| May 4, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Hale, Marengo | 63 min |
| May 4, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Clarke, Mobile, Monroe, Washington | 61 min |
| May 4, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke, Washington, Wilcox | 61 min |
| May 4, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb, Chilton, Dallas, Perry | 75 min |
| May 4, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Autauga, Chilton, Lowndes | 76 min |
| May 4, 5:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Clarke, Conecuh, Monroe, Wilcox | 57 min |
| May 4, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Clarke, Mobile, Monroe, Washington | 61 min |
| May 4, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Coosa | 50 min |
| May 4, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Elmore | 61 min |
| May 4, 6:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Montgomery | 68 min |
| May 4, 6:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tallapoosa | 56 min |
| May 4, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw, Monroe, Wilcox | 77 min |
| May 4, 6:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bullock, Macon, Pike | 83 min |
| May 4, 6:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chambers, Lee | 61 min |
| May 4, 7:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Russell | 54 min |
| May 4, 7:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Barbour | 54 min |
| May 4, 7:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Coffee, Dale, Henry | 84 min |
| May 4, 7:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Coffee, Geneva | 79 min |
| May 4, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington, Crenshaw | 32 min |
| May 4, 8:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston | 65 min |
| May 6, 4:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Colbert, Lauderdale | 49 min |
| May 6, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Colbert, Franklin, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone, Madison and 1 more | 59 min |
| May 6, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lamar, Marion, Winston | 59 min |
| May 6, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette, Lamar, Walker, Winston | 63 min |
| May 6, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Cullman, Jackson, Lawrence, Limestone, Madison, Marshall and 1 more | 48 min |
| May 6, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Cullman, DeKalb, Jackson, Madison, Marshall, Morgan | 62 min |
| May 9, 7:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lamar, Marion | 45 min |
| May 12, 4:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 24 min |
| May 12, 6:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Covington, Escambia | 44 min |
| May 12, 6:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 64 min |
| May 12, 6:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Coffee, Geneva | 38 min |
| May 12, 6:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington, Crenshaw | 35 min |
| May 12, 7:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Geneva | 54 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Clarke County6
- Covington County6
- Washington County5
- Conecuh County4
- Coffee County4
- Elmore County4
- Montgomery County4
- Jackson County4
- Cullman County4
- Morgan County4
- Jefferson County4
- Monroe County4
- Geneva County4
- Choctaw County3
- Butler County3
- Chilton County3
- Winston County3
- DeKalb County3
- St. Clair County3
- Mobile County3
- Wilcox County3
- Crenshaw County3
- Madison County3
- Lamar County3
- Autauga County2
- Chambers County2
- Lee County2
- Bibb County2
- Perry County2
- Macon County2
- Blount County2
- Walker County2
- Calhoun County2
- Talladega County2
- Shelby County2
- Baldwin County2
- Dale County2
- Henry County2
- Colbert County2
- Lauderdale County2
24 more counties
- Lawrence County2
- Limestone County2
- Marion County2
- Marshall County2
- Pickens County1
- Cherokee County1
- Cleburne County1
- Sumter County1
- Tuscaloosa County1
- Greene County1
- Hale County1
- Marengo County1
- Dallas County1
- Lowndes County1
- Coosa County1
- Tallapoosa County1
- Bullock County1
- Pike County1
- Russell County1
- Barbour County1
- Houston County1
- Franklin County1
- Fayette County1
- Escambia 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. Rebuilt daily.