Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings / 1996
Tornado Warnings in Alabama, March 1996
44 tornado warnings in March 1996. 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 March 1996. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 44
- Busiest day
- March 6, 199616 tornado warnings
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 6, 3:52 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Dallas | 53 min |
| Mar 6, 4:12 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Autauga | 48 min |
| Mar 6, 4:19 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lowndes | 41 min |
| Mar 6, 4:58 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lowndes | 47 min |
| Mar 6, 5:11 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Montgomery | 49 min |
| Mar 6, 5:27 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Bullock, Macon | 63 min |
| Mar 6, 5:51 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lee, Russell | 69 min |
| Mar 6, 8:50 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Barbour | 40 min |
| Mar 6, 1:39 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lawrence | 66 min |
| Mar 6, 2:12 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Houston | 33 min |
| Mar 6, 3:14 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Blount, Jefferson | 46 min |
| Mar 6, 3:26 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 49 min |
| Mar 6, 4:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Talladega | 34 min |
| Mar 6, 4:40 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Talladega | 35 min |
| Mar 6, 4:52 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Clay, Cleburne | 53 min |
| Mar 6, 5:31 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Limestone | 59 min |
| Mar 6, 9:38 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lowndes | 37 min |
| Mar 16, 1:34 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | DeKalb | 56 min |
| Mar 18, 3:39 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lamar, Pickens | 51 min |
| Mar 18, 4:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Fayette | 64 min |
| Mar 18, 4:17 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Washington | 58 min |
| Mar 18, 4:28 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lamar | 32 min |
| Mar 18, 4:51 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke | 69 min |
| Mar 18, 4:53 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Walker | 52 min |
| Mar 18, 4:57 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Washington | 63 min |
| Mar 18, 5:35 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 25 min |
| Mar 18, 5:37 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Wilcox | 38 min |
| Mar 18, 5:44 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Dallas | 61 min |
| Mar 18, 5:47 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Monroe | 58 min |
| Mar 18, 5:50 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Walker | 40 min |
| Mar 18, 5:54 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Autauga | 66 min |
| Mar 18, 5:56 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Cullman | 64 min |
| Mar 18, 6:00 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke | 45 min |
| Mar 18, 6:04 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Chilton, Coosa, Elmore | 56 min |
| Mar 18, 6:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Wilcox | 47 min |
| Mar 18, 6:33 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Elmore | 57 min |
| Mar 18, 6:39 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lowndes | 81 min |
| Mar 18, 6:52 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tallapoosa | 53 min |
| Mar 18, 6:59 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Coosa | 31 min |
| Mar 18, 7:20 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Montgomery | 55 min |
| Mar 18, 7:23 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Chambers, Randolph | 67 min |
| Mar 18, 7:44 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Elmore | 61 min |
| Mar 18, 8:21 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tallapoosa | 69 min |
| Mar 18, 9:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Clay, Randolph | 65 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Lowndes County4
- Elmore County3
- Dallas County2
- Autauga County2
- Montgomery County2
- Calhoun County2
- Talladega County2
- Clay County2
- Lamar County2
- Washington County2
- Clarke County2
- Walker County2
- Wilcox County2
- Coosa County2
- Tallapoosa County2
- Randolph County2
- Bullock County1
- Macon County1
- Lee County1
- Russell County1
- Barbour County1
- Lawrence County1
- Houston County1
- Blount County1
- Jefferson County1
- St. Clair County1
- Cleburne County1
- Limestone County1
- DeKalb County1
- Pickens County1
- Fayette County1
- Choctaw County1
- Monroe County1
- Cullman County1
- Chilton County1
- Chambers County1
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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.