Alert archive / Alabama / Shelby County
Weather alerts in Shelby County, Alabama, 1997
31 weather alerts in 1997, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.
Shelby County and its neighbors
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 31
- Warnings
- 17
- Watches
- 14
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest month
- January9 alerts
- Busiest day
- January 5, 19974 alerts
Over time
By month
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 4, 11:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| Jan 5, 1:05 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | 40 min |
| Jan 5, 1:43 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | 47 min |
| Jan 5, 2:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Jan 24, 4:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Jan 24, 4:54 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | 51 min |
| Jan 24, 8:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | 69 min |
| Jan 24, 9:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | 64 min |
| Jan 28, 12:52 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | 53 min |
| Feb 21, 4:45 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Feb 21, 7:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| Feb 21, 9:29 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | 46 min |
| Mar 2, 10:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Mar 5, 3:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| Apr 5, 11:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Apr 22, 1:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | 57 min |
| Apr 22, 1:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
| Apr 22, 2:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | 48 min |
| Apr 22, 2:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | 35 min |
| Apr 28, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| May 2, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| May 2, 8:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| May 3, 2:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Jun 16, 1:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Jun 16, 5:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | 64 min |
| Jun 22, 7:27 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | 2 hr |
| Jul 15, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | 35 min |
| Jul 17, 2:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | 47 min |
| Jul 17, 3:29 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | 2 hr |
| Jul 28, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | 60 min |
| Aug 18, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | 49 min |
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 | 13 |
| Tornado Warning | 2 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 5 |
| Tornado Watch | 9 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 2 |
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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.