Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Watches
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Alabama, 2017
13 severe thunderstorm watches in 2017. 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 2017. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 13
- Busiest month
- March4 severe thunderstorm watches
- Busiest day
- May 28, 20172 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 8, 4:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Blount, Cherokee, Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Etowah and 15 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 1, 3:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Chambers, Chilton, Clay, Cleburne and 10 more | 4 hr |
| Mar 9, 11:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Blount, Cherokee, Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Etowah and 10 more | 4 hr |
| Mar 21, 2:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cherokee, DeKalb, Jackson, Lauderdale, Limestone, Madison and 1 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 27, 1:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Cleburne, Colbert and 25 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 3, 4:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Bullock, Chambers, Chilton and 14 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 5, 1:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Butler and 42 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 22, 3:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Blount, Colbert, Cullman, Fayette, Franklin, Greene and 15 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 26, 11:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Chilton, Coosa, Dallas, Elmore and 16 more | 6 hr |
| May 12, 10:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Escambia, Mobile | 5 hr |
| May 27, 9:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Blount, Cherokee, Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Etowah and 13 more | 8 hr |
| May 28, 2:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Calhoun, Chambers, Chilton, Clay, Cleburne, Coosa and 6 more | 4 hr |
| Jun 15, 4:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Autauga, Barbour, Bullock, Chambers, Elmore, Lee and 7 more | 3 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Blount County6
- Cherokee County6
- Fayette County6
- Jefferson County6
- Lauderdale County6
- Limestone County6
- Madison County6
- Marion County6
- Walker County6
- Winston County6
- Hale County6
- Colbert County5
- Cullman County5
- DeKalb County5
- Etowah County5
- Franklin County5
- Jackson County5
- Lamar County5
- Lawrence County5
- Marshall County5
- Morgan County5
- Autauga County5
- Bibb County5
- Chambers County5
- Chilton County5
- Coosa County5
- Elmore County5
- Marengo County5
- Shelby County5
- Tallapoosa County5
- Greene County5
- St. Clair County4
- Cleburne County4
- Dallas County4
- Perry County4
- Randolph County4
- Talladega County4
- Pickens County4
- Sumter County4
- Tuscaloosa County4
24 more counties
- Lowndes County4
- Montgomery County4
- Clay County3
- Calhoun County3
- Barbour County3
- Bullock County3
- Lee County3
- Macon County3
- Pike County3
- Russell County3
- Escambia County2
- Butler County1
- Coffee County1
- Conecuh County1
- Covington County1
- Crenshaw County1
- Dale County1
- Geneva County1
- Henry County1
- Houston County1
- Monroe County1
- Wilcox County1
- Baldwin County1
- Mobile 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.