Alert archive / Alabama / Tallapoosa County

Weather alerts in Tallapoosa County, Alabama, 2012

187 weather alerts in 2012, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Tallapoosa County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2012. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 187
Warnings: 42
Watches: 29
Advisories: 44
Busiest month: January42 alerts
Busiest day: January 23, 201213 alerts

Over time

By month

Warning verification

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

2 of 5 tornado warnings covering Tallapoosa County in 2012 had a tornado report inside them; 1 of 1 tornado reports fell inside a warning, on average 6 minutes after it went out.

Tallapoosa County, 2012

	Warnings	With a report	False alarm ratio	Reports	Inside a warning	Mean lead time
Tornado warnings	5	2	60%	1	100%	6 min
Severe thunderstorm warnings	10	7	30%	8	50%	30 min
Flash flood warnings	0			0

Each office's whole area, 2012

	Warnings	With a report	False alarm ratio	Reports	Inside a warning	Mean lead time
NWS Birmingham, AL: tornado warnings	44	21	52%	51	76%	21 min
NWS Birmingham, AL: severe thunderstorm warnings	317	242	24%	613	72%	20 min
NWS Birmingham, AL: flash flood warnings	40	33	18%	60	95%	54 min

An office's figures cover every county it serves, including across state lines.

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.

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 1, 4:46 AM CST	Fire Weather Watch	BMX	34 hr
Jan 1, 2:55 PM CST	Fire Weather Watch	BMX	15 hr
Jan 2, 4:51 AM CST	Red Flag Warning	BMX	12 hr
Jan 2, 2:35 PM CST	Red Flag Warning	BMX	26 hr
Jan 2, 6:05 PM CST	Wind Advisory	BMX	5 hr
Jan 3, 2:46 PM CST	Fire Weather Watch	BMX	14 hr
Jan 4, 4:51 AM CST	Red Flag Warning	BMX	12 hr
Jan 8, 5:56 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	BMX	15 hr
Jan 10, 11:39 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
Jan 12, 4:17 AM CST	Wind Advisory	BMX	14 hr
Jan 14, 10:48 AM CST	Red Flag Warning	BMX	6 hr
Jan 21, 1:52 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	113 min
Jan 21, 4:20 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	55 min
Jan 21, 4:55 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr
Jan 21, 7:22 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	83 min
Jan 21, 9:53 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	BMX	37 min
Jan 21, 10:01 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	59 min
Jan 21, 10:09 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	36 min
Jan 21, 11:28 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr
Jan 21, 1:57 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	63 min
Jan 21, 11:35 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	BMX	9 hr
Jan 23, 2:44 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	9 hr
Jan 23, 4:02 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	118 min
Jan 23, 6:01 AM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	44 min
Jan 23, 6:38 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	97 min
Jan 23, 7:12 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	48 min
Jan 23, 7:15 AM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	17 min
Jan 23, 7:32 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	3 hr
Jan 23, 7:42 AM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	33 min
Jan 23, 8:09 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	36 min
Jan 23, 8:34 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	41 min
Jan 23, 8:45 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	3 hr
Jan 23, 10:20 AM CST	Areal Flood Warning	BMX	4 hr
Jan 23, 12:12 PM CST	River Flood Warning	BMX	2 hr
Jan 23, 10:10 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	BMX	8 hr
Jan 26, 9:34 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	86 min
Jan 26, 9:55 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr
Jan 26, 2:00 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	3 hr
Jan 28, 5:45 AM CST	Fire Weather Watch	BMX	9 hr
Jan 28, 2:55 PM CST	Red Flag Warning	BMX	27 hr
Jan 29, 5:58 AM CST	Fire Weather Watch	BMX	21 hr
Jan 30, 3:12 AM CST	Red Flag Warning	BMX	14 hr
Feb 1, 5:37 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	BMX	14 hr
Feb 10, 3:33 PM CST	Hard Freeze Watch	BMX	24 hr
Feb 10, 3:38 PM CST	Fire Weather Watch	BMX	14 hr
Feb 11, 4:39 AM CST	Wind Advisory	BMX	13 hr
Feb 11, 5:41 AM CST	Red Flag Warning	BMX	36 hr
Feb 11, 3:35 PM CST	Hard Freeze Warning	BMX	17 hr
Feb 12, 5:28 AM CST	Fire Weather Watch	BMX	24 hr
Feb 13, 5:17 AM CST	Red Flag Warning	BMX	12 hr
Feb 15, 3:33 AM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	BMX	4 hr
Feb 23, 10:59 AM CST	Wind Advisory	BMX	12 hr
Feb 24, 5:56 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	94 min
Feb 24, 6:36 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	3 hr
Feb 24, 7:48 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr
Feb 24, 9:08 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	3 hr
Feb 24, 9:49 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	56 min
Feb 24, 9:50 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	BMX	55 min
Feb 24, 10:59 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	BMX	31 min
Feb 24, 2:44 PM CST	Fire Weather Watch	BMX	14 hr
Feb 25, 5:06 AM CST	Red Flag Warning	BMX	13 hr
Feb 26, 11:31 AM CST	Red Flag Warning	BMX	5 hr
Mar 1, 3:00 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	90 min
Mar 2, 4:53 AM CST	Wind Advisory	BMX	13 hr
Mar 2, 4:37 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr
Mar 2, 5:41 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
Mar 2, 10:07 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	113 min
Mar 2, 10:34 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	41 min
Mar 2, 10:56 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr
Mar 3, 12:25 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	3 hr
Mar 3, 4:27 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	3 hr
Mar 4, 5:23 AM CST	Red Flag Warning	BMX	12 hr
Mar 5, 12:07 PM CST	Red Flag Warning	BMX	6 hr
Mar 6, 3:53 AM CST	Red Flag Warning	BMX	14 hr
Mar 14, 3:35 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	BMX	7 hr
Mar 15, 2:33 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	BMX	7 hr
Mar 16, 12:40 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
Mar 23, 4:03 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	87 min
Mar 23, 5:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	47 min
Mar 31, 7:27 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	63 min
Mar 31, 7:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	50 min
Apr 3, 6:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	30 min
Apr 3, 6:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	27 min
Apr 3, 7:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	30 min
Apr 3, 7:33 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	57 min
Apr 5, 9:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr
Apr 5, 1:12 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	93 min
Apr 5, 6:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	3 hr
Apr 5, 6:15 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	45 min
Apr 5, 7:54 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	96 min
Apr 11, 3:14 AM CDT	Frost Advisory	BMX	29 hr
Apr 11, 4:26 AM CDT	Red Flag Warning	BMX	14 hr
Apr 12, 4:01 AM CDT	Red Flag Warning	BMX	15 hr
Apr 16, 12:56 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
Apr 17, 1:34 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	116 min
Apr 22, 3:43 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	BMX	15 hr
Apr 22, 2:57 PM CDT	Fire Weather Watch	BMX	12 hr
Apr 23, 3:18 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	BMX	16 hr
May 7, 7:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	50 min
May 13, 2:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	20 min
May 13, 2:41 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
May 13, 3:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	42 min
May 13, 4:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	48 min
May 15, 5:39 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	BMX	2 hr
May 21, 3:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	44 min
May 21, 4:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	48 min
May 31, 9:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	52 min
Jun 3, 1:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr
Jun 3, 4:39 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	66 min
Jun 3, 5:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	35 min
Jun 4, 5:33 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	87 min
Jun 4, 7:56 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	64 min
Jun 4, 8:43 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
Jun 5, 10:46 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	44 min
Jun 10, 10:27 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	93 min
Jun 11, 5:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr
Jun 11, 9:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	52 min
Jun 14, 4:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	38 min
Jun 14, 5:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	45 min
Jun 28, 3:52 AM CDT	Heat Advisory	BMX	55 hr
Jun 30, 11:21 AM CDT	Excessive Heat Warning	BMX	34 hr
Jul 1, 1:08 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	3 hr
Jul 1, 3:42 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	BMX	23 hr
Jul 1, 4:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	41 min
Jul 3, 10:57 AM CDT	Heat Advisory	BMX	8 hr
Jul 3, 1:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	50 min
Jul 3, 5:59 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	3 hr
Jul 5, 3:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	39 min
Jul 5, 6:20 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	115 min
Jul 5, 6:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	35 min
Jul 9, 7:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	45 min
Jul 10, 4:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	38 min
Jul 10, 4:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	49 min
Jul 11, 7:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	50 min
Jul 13, 6:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	40 min
Jul 17, 11:21 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	84 min
Jul 20, 2:17 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
Jul 23, 4:39 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	BMX	26 hr
Jul 24, 3:07 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	BMX	30 hr
Jul 26, 12:30 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	3 hr
Jul 31, 1:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr
Jul 31, 5:48 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	57 min
Aug 9, 12:16 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	59 min
Aug 18, 8:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	63 min
Sep 8, 1:03 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	117 min
Sep 21, 7:38 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	BMX	2 hr
Oct 1, 5:51 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	114 min
Oct 1, 12:52 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	53 min
Oct 1, 1:16 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr
Oct 1, 3:00 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
Oct 3, 4:04 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	BMX	5 hr
Oct 6, 4:17 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	BMX	5 hr
Oct 10, 4:30 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	BMX	5 hr
Oct 18, 3:24 PM CDT	Red Flag Warning	BMX	28 hr
Oct 28, 5:14 AM CDT	Fire Weather Watch	BMX	10 hr
Oct 28, 2:46 PM CDT	Red Flag Warning	BMX	27 hr
Oct 28, 2:46 PM CDT	Red Flag Warning	BMX	51 hr
Oct 28, 3:15 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	BMX	28 hr
Nov 1, 6:26 AM CDT	Red Flag Warning	BMX	13 hr
Nov 7, 7:51 PM CST	Frost Advisory	BMX	12 hr
Nov 8, 4:06 AM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	BMX	4 hr
Nov 8, 3:46 PM CST	Frost Advisory	BMX	15 hr
Nov 8, 7:38 PM CST	Freeze Warning	BMX	11 hr
Nov 13, 2:20 PM CST	Frost Advisory	BMX	18 hr
Nov 16, 3:08 PM CST	Frost Advisory	BMX	16 hr
Nov 23, 4:00 PM CST	Fire Weather Watch	BMX	24 hr
Nov 24, 3:40 PM CST	Red Flag Warning	BMX	25 hr
Dec 8, 4:06 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	BMX	17 hr
Dec 10, 8:51 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr
Dec 10, 10:24 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
Dec 10, 12:52 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	113 min
Dec 10, 1:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	64 min
Dec 19, 9:04 PM CST	Wind Advisory	BMX	23 hr
Dec 20, 4:23 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	9 hr
Dec 20, 7:09 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	96 min
Dec 20, 9:56 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	64 min
Dec 20, 9:57 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	BMX	48 min
Dec 20, 10:43 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	BMX	47 min
Dec 21, 5:32 AM CST	Red Flag Warning	BMX	11 hr
Dec 22, 10:09 AM CST	Red Flag Warning	BMX	7 hr
Dec 24, 5:57 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	BMX	16 hr
Dec 25, 10:10 AM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	BMX	110 min
Dec 25, 12:58 PM CST	Tornado Watch PDS	SPC	9 hr
Dec 25, 2:22 PM CST	Wind Advisory	BMX	25 hr
Dec 25, 6:05 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	85 min
Dec 25, 7:08 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	67 min
Dec 25, 9:23 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

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	10
Tornado Warning	5
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	5
Tornado Watch	12
Mesoscale Discussion	45
Special Weather Statement	27
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	1
River Flood Warning	1
Areal Flood Advisory	8
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	1
Heat Advisory	5
Cold
Freeze Warning	1
Hard Freeze Warning	1
Hard Freeze Watch	1
Frost Advisory	5
Wind and dust
Wind Advisory	10
Fire
Red Flag Warning	22
Fire Weather Watch	11
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	16

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

Nearby

Alerts in force now Tornadoes on record Forecast The radar archive 2011 2013

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.