Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Watches
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Alabama, 2016
8 severe thunderstorm watches in 2016. 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 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 8
- Busiest month
- March2 severe thunderstorm watches
- Busiest day
- May 20, 20162 severe thunderstorm watches
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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 | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 5:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Bullock, Calhoun, Chambers and 26 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 17, 1:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Choctaw, Clarke, Mobile, Washington | 9 hr |
| Apr 11, 6:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Choctaw, Clarke, Washington | 5 hr |
| May 19, 10:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington, Escambia, Mobile and 2 more | 6 hr |
| May 20, 3:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston | 5 hr |
| Jun 17, 12:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock and 53 more | 8 hr |
| Nov 28, 4:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bibb, Blount, Colbert, Cullman, Fayette, Franklin and 18 more | 4 hr |
| Dec 18, 1:03 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Blount, Cullman, DeKalb, Fayette, Jackson, Lamar and 7 more | 4 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Clarke County4
- Washington County4
- Bibb County3
- Greene County3
- Hale County3
- Jefferson County3
- Marengo County3
- Perry County3
- Sumter County3
- Tuscaloosa County3
- Baldwin County3
- Choctaw County3
- Mobile County3
- Blount County3
- Cullman County3
- Fayette County3
- Lamar County3
- Lawrence County3
- Marion County3
- Walker County3
- Winston County3
- Autauga County2
- Barbour County2
- Bullock County2
- Calhoun County2
- Chambers County2
- Cherokee County2
- Chilton County2
- Clay County2
- Cleburne County2
- Coosa County2
- Dallas County2
- Elmore County2
- Etowah County2
- Lee County2
- Lowndes County2
- Macon County2
- Montgomery County2
- Pike County2
- Randolph County2
27 more counties
- Russell County2
- St. Clair County2
- Shelby County2
- Talladega County2
- Tallapoosa County2
- Conecuh County2
- Covington County2
- Escambia County2
- Monroe County2
- Coffee County2
- Dale County2
- Geneva County2
- Henry County2
- Houston County2
- Franklin County2
- Pickens County2
- Madison County2
- Marshall County2
- Morgan County2
- Butler County1
- Crenshaw County1
- Wilcox County1
- Colbert County1
- Lauderdale County1
- Limestone County1
- DeKalb County1
- Jackson County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.