Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2009
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Alabama, May 2009
7 severe thunderstorm watches in May 2009. 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 2009. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 7
- Busiest day
- May 3, 20093 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 1, 2:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Franklin, Jackson, Lauderdale and 5 more | 5 hr |
| May 3, 7:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bibb, Chilton, Fayette, Greene, Hale, Jefferson and 8 more | 8 hr |
| May 3, 11:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Blount, Bullock, Butler and 29 more | 5 hr |
| May 3, 3:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston | 3 hr |
| May 6, 4:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Clay, Cleburne and 27 more | 6 hr |
| May 6, 12:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw and 4 more | 6 hr |
| May 10, 7:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Dallas, Greene, Hale and 6 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Greene County3
- Hale County3
- Sumter County3
- Choctaw County3
- Clarke County3
- Conecuh County3
- Monroe County3
- Washington County3
- Wilcox County3
- Colbert County2
- Cullman County2
- DeKalb County2
- Franklin County2
- Jackson County2
- Lauderdale County2
- Lawrence County2
- Limestone County2
- Madison County2
- Marshall County2
- Morgan County2
- Bibb County2
- Fayette County2
- Jefferson County2
- Lamar County2
- Marengo County2
- Perry County2
- Pickens County2
- Shelby County2
- Tuscaloosa County2
- Walker County2
- Blount County2
- Butler County2
- Calhoun County2
- Cherokee County2
- Clay County2
- Cleburne County2
- Covington County2
- Crenshaw County2
- Dallas County2
- Escambia County2
27 more counties
- Etowah County2
- Randolph County2
- St. Clair County2
- Talladega County2
- Chilton County1
- Autauga County1
- Baldwin County1
- Barbour County1
- Bullock County1
- Chambers County1
- Coosa County1
- Elmore County1
- Lee County1
- Lowndes County1
- Macon County1
- Mobile County1
- Montgomery County1
- Pike County1
- Russell County1
- Tallapoosa County1
- Coffee County1
- Dale County1
- Geneva County1
- Henry County1
- Houston County1
- Marion County1
- Winston 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.