Alert archive / Alabama

Weather alerts in Talladega County, Alabama

4,075 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Talladega County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
4,075
Warnings
1,207
Watches
710
Advisories
1,012
Busiest year
2009270 alerts
Average year
99over 41 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

Warning verification

How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.

From 2008 to 2025, 63% of tornado reports in Talladega County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 12 minutes before, and 75% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200811191%0
200913377%20%
201060100%0
201112650%3100%17 min
20123167%1100%11 min
201310100%0
2016110%10%
20216183%0
20252150%1100%0 min
Share of tornado reports inside a tornado warning, by year.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008573539%2781%21 min
2009452349%4078%27 min
2010191426%933%23 min
2011443716%3376%26 min
2012201525%2273%17 min
20136350%1050%5 min
20146350%1020%9 min
201510820%1173%7 min
20162150%20%
2017880%2075%26 min
20187614%7100%20 min
20196433%1242%11 min
2020131115%2665%22 min
202113654%250%25 min
202215940%11100%38 min
2023352723%3577%26 min
202412833%1267%20 min
2025221818%3974%27 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200810100%10%
20096517%20%
20102150%1100%75 min
20113167%4100%84 min
2012110%0
2013330%5100%41 min
2014110%1100%212 min
2015220%475%27 min
2017220%0
2018110%0
20205340%20%
20215260%0
20225420%989%113 min
2023330%1100%31 min
2024110%1100%52 min
20253233%1100%24 min

Years from 2008, the first full year of storm-based warnings. The year still running is on its own page.

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.

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, 5:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMX32 min
Sep 19, 4:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMX51 min
Aug 16, 10:16 AM CDTExtreme Heat WarningBMX35 hr
Jul 27, 6:37 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMX53 min
Jul 19, 12:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMX36 min
Jul 1, 6:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMX52 min
Jul 1, 5:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMX31 min
Jun 1, 3:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMX54 min
Jun 1, 2:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMX78 min
Apr 11, 10:01 PM CDTRed Flag WarningBMX21 hr
Mar 27, 10:58 AM CDTRed Flag WarningBMX32 hr
Mar 14, 10:24 PM CDTFreeze WarningBMX3 days

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.