Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Alabama, May 1998
6 severe thunderstorm watches in May 1998. 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 watches reaches back to 1997.
Severe Thunderstorm Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 6
- Busiest day
- May 3, 19982 severe thunderstorm 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 3, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Bullock, Butler, Chambers and 33 more | 6 hr |
| May 3, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Russell | 7 hr |
| May 3, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bibb, Bullock, Butler and 33 more | 6 hr |
| May 4, 12:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke and 18 more | 6 hr |
| May 26, 1:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Franklin, Jackson, Lamar and 8 more | 5 hr |
| May 27, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Sumter | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Barbour County3
- Bullock County3
- Butler County3
- Choctaw County3
- Clarke County3
- Coffee County3
- Conecuh County3
- Covington County3
- Crenshaw County3
- Dale County3
- Geneva County3
- Lowndes County3
- Macon County3
- Monroe County3
- Montgomery County3
- Pike County3
- Sumter County3
- Washington County3
- Wilcox County3
- Russell County3
- Autauga County2
- Bibb County2
- Chambers County2
- Chilton County2
- Clay County2
- Coosa County2
- Dallas County2
- Elmore County2
- Hale County2
- Lee County2
- Marengo County2
- Perry County2
- Randolph County2
- Tallapoosa County2
- Baldwin County2
- Escambia County2
- Henry County2
- Houston County2
- Mobile County2
- Greene County1
19 more counties
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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.