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Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Alabama, 2021

18 severe thunderstorm watches in 2021. 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 2021. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Watches
18
Busiest month
April6 severe thunderstorm watches
Busiest day
March 31, 20212 severe thunderstorm watches

Over time

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 28, 5:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBibb, Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Clay, Cleburne and 12 more5 hr
Mar 31, 11:19 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAutauga, Barbour, Bibb, Bullock, Butler, Chambers and 23 more6 hr
Mar 31, 3:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBaldwin, Coffee, Covington, Dale, Escambia, Geneva and 3 more4 hr
Apr 9, 12:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAutauga, Bibb, Blount, Chilton, Coosa, Dallas and 19 more7 hr
Apr 9, 9:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBibb, Colbert, Cullman, Dallas, Fayette, Franklin and 14 more7 hr
Apr 9, 10:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCChoctaw, Clarke, Washington, Wilcox6 hr
Apr 24, 1:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAutauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Choctaw and 23 more8 hr
Apr 24, 4:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBibb, Blount, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee, Chilton and 15 more4 hr
Apr 24, 7:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCoffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston4 hr
May 3, 11:47 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAutauga, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Butler and 46 more10 hr
May 4, 5:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCJackson, Lauderdale, Limestone, Madison5 hr
May 4, 6:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBarbour, Bullock, Chambers, Coffee, Covington, Crenshaw and 8 more6 hr
May 9, 7:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCFayette, Franklin, Lamar, Marion, Pickens, Tuscaloosa and 2 more4 hr
May 12, 7:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCoffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston6 hr
Jun 13, 12:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCChoctaw, Clarke, Fayette, Greene, Hale, Lamar and 9 more9 hr
Jul 31, 11:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCDeKalb, Jackson, Lauderdale, Limestone, Madison3 hr
Oct 15, 6:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCColbert, Franklin, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone4 hr
Dec 30, 1:05 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAutauga, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Chambers, Clarke and 13 more7 hr

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

27 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. March 31, 20212severe thunderstorm watches
  2. April 10, 20212severe thunderstorm watches
  3. April 24, 20212severe thunderstorm watches
  4. May 4, 20212severe thunderstorm watches
  5. March 28, 20211severe thunderstorm watches
  6. April 9, 20211severe thunderstorm watches
  7. April 25, 20211severe thunderstorm watches
  8. May 3, 20211severe thunderstorm watches
  9. May 10, 20211severe thunderstorm watches
  10. May 12, 20211severe thunderstorm watches
  11. June 13, 20211severe thunderstorm watches
  12. August 1, 20211severe thunderstorm watches

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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.