Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings
Tornado Warnings in Alabama, 1989
81 tornado warnings in 1989. 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 tornado warnings reaches back to 1986.
Tornado Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 1989. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 81
- Busiest month
- March23 tornado warnings
- Busiest day
- March 5, 198913 tornado warnings
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 20, 9:17 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lamar, Marion | 58 min |
| Feb 20, 9:48 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Fayette | 57 min |
| Feb 20, 10:14 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Walker, Winston | 61 min |
| Feb 20, 10:16 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lawrence | 44 min |
| Feb 20, 11:03 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Pickens | 57 min |
| Feb 20, 11:23 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Greene, Tuscaloosa | 67 min |
| Feb 20, 11:39 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Cullman | 66 min |
| Feb 20, 11:58 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 62 min |
| Mar 5, 12:52 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Colbert, Franklin | 68 min |
| Mar 5, 6:02 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Franklin, Lawrence | 58 min |
| Mar 5, 12:47 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 58 min |
| Mar 5, 1:27 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Blount | 63 min |
| Mar 5, 1:37 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Chilton | 68 min |
| Mar 5, 1:43 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Dallas | 62 min |
| Mar 5, 1:55 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Marshall | 65 min |
| Mar 5, 1:58 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 47 min |
| Mar 5, 2:05 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Walker | 55 min |
| Mar 5, 2:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Hale, Perry | 62 min |
| Mar 5, 2:33 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 57 min |
| Mar 5, 5:04 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Clay, Talladega | 56 min |
| Mar 5, 5:15 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Cherokee | 60 min |
| Mar 15, 8:53 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Autauga, Dallas | 67 min |
| Mar 15, 9:59 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Elmore | 61 min |
| Mar 15, 10:14 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Montgomery | 46 min |
| Mar 20, 6:40 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 65 min |
| Mar 21, 2:14 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 46 min |
| Mar 21, 2:54 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Bibb, Jefferson, Shelby | 66 min |
| Mar 21, 8:24 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Dale | 42 min |
| Mar 21, 6:03 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 57 min |
| Mar 30, 10:08 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Franklin | 54 min |
| Mar 30, 10:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Marion | 47 min |
| Apr 4, 10:07 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Blount, Cullman | 68 min |
| Apr 4, 10:59 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Marshall | 46 min |
| Apr 4, 11:35 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | DeKalb | 55 min |
| Apr 4, 12:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Shelby | 41 min |
| Apr 4, 1:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Cherokee, Etowah | 59 min |
| Apr 4, 1:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Hale, Marengo | 43 min |
| Apr 4, 1:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Chilton | 31 min |
| Apr 4, 3:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Montgomery | 68 min |
| May 19, 2:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 12 min |
| May 22, 7:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Coosa | 43 min |
| May 22, 8:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lauderdale | 61 min |
| Jun 8, 9:46 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 29 min |
| Jun 8, 10:17 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 28 min |
| Jun 8, 11:09 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 36 min |
| Jun 8, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 45 min |
| Jun 8, 4:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 27 min |
| Jun 8, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 45 min |
| Jun 8, 7:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Mobile | 32 min |
| Jun 8, 8:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Mobile | 26 min |
| Jun 8, 8:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 31 min |
| Jun 12, 5:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lamar | 16 min |
| Jun 12, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Marion | 15 min |
| Jun 12, 5:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Winston | 46 min |
| Jun 12, 7:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Walker | 18 min |
| Jun 14, 12:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Morgan | 38 min |
| Jun 14, 3:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jefferson, Shelby | 58 min |
| Jun 14, 3:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Blount | 63 min |
| Jul 2, 12:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Mobile | 36 min |
| Jul 4, 12:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 33 min |
| Nov 8, 5:34 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Houston | 41 min |
| Nov 8, 9:44 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Houston | 46 min |
| Nov 8, 2:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 47 min |
| Nov 8, 4:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Greene, Pickens | 47 min |
| Nov 8, 4:19 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Sumter | 26 min |
| Nov 8, 4:59 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Greene | 61 min |
| Nov 15, 1:53 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Clay, Randolph | 52 min |
| Nov 15, 2:09 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lamar, Marion | 51 min |
| Nov 15, 3:39 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Randolph | 36 min |
| Nov 15, 3:40 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lawrence, Morgan | 65 min |
| Nov 15, 4:08 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Chambers, Tallapoosa | 67 min |
| Nov 15, 4:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Randolph | 47 min |
| Nov 15, 4:39 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Madison | 39 min |
| Nov 15, 5:00 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Cherokee, Etowah | 45 min |
| Nov 15, 5:02 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jackson, Madison, Marshall | 58 min |
| Nov 15, 5:05 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Calhoun | 25 min |
| Nov 15, 5:14 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Shelby | 46 min |
| Nov 15, 5:59 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | DeKalb, Marshall | 61 min |
| Nov 15, 6:03 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Talladega | 42 min |
| Nov 28, 12:19 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Marion | 56 min |
| Nov 28, 12:28 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Fayette, Walker | 47 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Baldwin County10
- Jefferson County6
- Marion County5
- Walker County4
- Tuscaloosa County4
- Marshall County4
- Shelby County4
- Lamar County3
- Lawrence County3
- Greene County3
- Franklin County3
- Blount County3
- Calhoun County3
- Cherokee County3
- Mobile County3
- Randolph County3
- Fayette County2
- Winston County2
- Pickens County2
- Cullman County2
- Chilton County2
- Dallas County2
- Hale County2
- Clay County2
- Talladega County2
- Montgomery County2
- DeKalb County2
- Etowah County2
- Morgan County2
- Houston County2
- Madison County2
- Colbert County1
- Perry County1
- Autauga County1
- Elmore County1
- Bibb County1
- Dale County1
- Marengo County1
- Coosa County1
- Lauderdale County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
Nearby
Alerts in force nowTornadoes on recordThe radar archive19881990
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.