Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2021
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Alabama, May 2021
5 severe thunderstorm watches in May 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 May 2021. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- May 4, 20212 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 3, 11:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Butler and 46 more | 10 hr |
| May 4, 5:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Jackson, Lauderdale, Limestone, Madison | 5 hr |
| May 4, 6:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Chambers, Coffee, Covington, Crenshaw and 8 more | 6 hr |
| May 9, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Fayette, Franklin, Lamar, Marion, Pickens, Tuscaloosa and 2 more | 4 hr |
| May 12, 7:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Coffee County3
- Dale County3
- Geneva County3
- Henry County3
- Houston County3
- Barbour County2
- Bullock County2
- Chambers County2
- Covington County2
- Crenshaw County2
- Fayette County2
- Lamar County2
- Lee County2
- Macon County2
- Pickens County2
- Pike County2
- Russell County2
- Tuscaloosa County2
- Walker County2
- Autauga County1
- Bibb County1
- Blount County1
- Butler County1
- Calhoun County1
- Cherokee County1
- Chilton County1
- Choctaw County1
- Clarke County1
- Clay County1
- Cleburne County1
- Conecuh County1
- Coosa County1
- Dallas County1
- Elmore County1
- Escambia County1
- Etowah County1
- Greene County1
- Hale County1
- Jefferson County1
- Lowndes County1
19 more counties
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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.