Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings / 1998
Tornado Warnings in Alabama, May 1998
61 tornado warnings 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 tornado warnings reaches back to 1986.
Tornado Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 61
- Busiest day
- May 7, 199818 tornado 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 3, 3:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Wilcox | 65 min |
| May 3, 5:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Covington | 37 min |
| May 3, 5:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Coffee | 67 min |
| May 3, 8:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Conecuh | 75 min |
| May 3, 8:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Butler, Covington | 72 min |
| May 3, 8:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 68 min |
| May 4, 1:16 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Houston | 34 min |
| May 6, 2:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Colbert | 51 min |
| May 6, 2:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Colbert | 49 min |
| May 6, 3:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lawrence | 34 min |
| May 6, 3:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Franklin | 34 min |
| May 6, 3:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Franklin | 35 min |
| May 6, 3:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lawrence | 51 min |
| May 6, 4:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Morgan | 47 min |
| May 6, 4:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Marion, Winston | 51 min |
| May 6, 5:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Cullman | 48 min |
| May 6, 7:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Bibb | 18 min |
| May 6, 7:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Perry | 46 min |
| May 6, 8:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Autauga, Dallas | 66 min |
| May 6, 9:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Autauga | 45 min |
| May 7, 4:29 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lauderdale | 36 min |
| May 7, 5:03 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lawrence | 32 min |
| May 7, 5:06 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lauderdale | 19 min |
| May 7, 5:10 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Limestone | 30 min |
| May 7, 5:41 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Limestone | 34 min |
| May 7, 5:50 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Madison | 45 min |
| May 7, 6:20 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jackson | 25 min |
| May 7, 6:34 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Madison | 31 min |
| May 7, 6:45 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jackson | 35 min |
| May 7, 4:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Limestone | 51 min |
| May 7, 4:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jackson | 50 min |
| May 7, 4:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Madison | 63 min |
| May 7, 5:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jackson | 67 min |
| May 7, 5:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | DeKalb | 50 min |
| May 7, 8:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Cullman, Winston | 65 min |
| May 7, 8:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Madison | 49 min |
| May 7, 8:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | DeKalb, Jackson | 64 min |
| May 7, 8:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Marshall | 52 min |
| May 7, 8:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Blount | 62 min |
| May 7, 9:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Etowah, St. Clair | 65 min |
| May 7, 10:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Cleburne | 32 min |
| May 7, 11:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Calhoun | 36 min |
| May 7, 11:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Cleburne | 50 min |
| May 8, 12:00 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Calhoun | 50 min |
| May 8, 12:18 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Cleburne | 62 min |
| May 9, 6:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Pickens | 77 min |
| May 9, 7:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 69 min |
| May 9, 7:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Greene | 62 min |
| May 9, 7:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 76 min |
| May 9, 7:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Pickens | 34 min |
| May 9, 7:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Sumter | 77 min |
| May 9, 8:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 51 min |
| May 9, 8:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Hale | 61 min |
| May 9, 8:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Greene | 36 min |
| May 9, 8:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Bibb | 65 min |
| May 9, 8:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Shelby | 77 min |
| May 9, 8:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 47 min |
| May 9, 9:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Chilton | 63 min |
| May 9, 9:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Coosa | 65 min |
| May 9, 11:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 51 min |
| May 10, 6:49 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Chambers | 31 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Jackson County5
- Madison County4
- Lawrence County3
- Limestone County3
- Cleburne County3
- Jefferson County3
- Covington County2
- Colbert County2
- Franklin County2
- Winston County2
- Cullman County2
- Bibb County2
- Autauga County2
- Lauderdale County2
- DeKalb County2
- Calhoun County2
- Pickens County2
- Tuscaloosa County2
- Greene County2
- Wilcox County1
- Coffee County1
- Conecuh County1
- Butler County1
- Baldwin County1
- Houston County1
- Morgan County1
- Marion County1
- Perry County1
- Dallas County1
- Marshall County1
- Blount County1
- Etowah County1
- St. Clair County1
- Sumter County1
- Hale County1
- Shelby County1
- Chilton County1
- Coosa County1
- Chambers 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.