Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings / 1997
Tornado Warnings in Alabama, January 1997
37 tornado warnings in January 1997. 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 January 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 37
- Busiest day
- January 24, 199722 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 15, 6:14 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 61 min |
| Jan 15, 6:18 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh | 57 min |
| Jan 15, 6:41 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Washington | 64 min |
| Jan 15, 6:52 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Crenshaw | 68 min |
| Jan 15, 10:08 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Covington | 67 min |
| Jan 24, 5:32 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 58 min |
| Jan 24, 7:10 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Autauga | 35 min |
| Jan 24, 7:24 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Elmore, Montgomery | 51 min |
| Jan 24, 8:00 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tallapoosa | 60 min |
| Jan 24, 8:35 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Chambers | 55 min |
| Jan 24, 2:42 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Winston | 33 min |
| Jan 24, 2:59 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Cullman | 61 min |
| Jan 24, 3:27 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Morgan | 63 min |
| Jan 24, 3:57 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Blount | 33 min |
| Jan 24, 4:03 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Cullman | 12 min |
| Jan 24, 4:05 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Marshall | 55 min |
| Jan 24, 4:31 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lawrence | 59 min |
| Jan 24, 4:42 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 48 min |
| Jan 24, 4:54 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Shelby | 51 min |
| Jan 24, 5:04 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | DeKalb, Marshall | 56 min |
| Jan 24, 5:04 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Mobile | 56 min |
| Jan 24, 5:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 49 min |
| Jan 24, 5:12 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Madison | 63 min |
| Jan 24, 5:26 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jackson | 64 min |
| Jan 24, 5:32 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Morgan | 43 min |
| Jan 24, 5:34 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 41 min |
| Jan 24, 5:34 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Morgan | 41 min |
| Jan 24, 6:30 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Franklin | 60 min |
| Jan 24, 6:32 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 43 min |
| Jan 24, 6:38 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Talladega | 37 min |
| Jan 24, 6:59 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Marshall | 61 min |
| Jan 24, 7:31 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Blount | 44 min |
| Jan 24, 7:37 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Cleburne | 53 min |
| Jan 24, 7:53 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Etowah | 52 min |
| Jan 24, 8:09 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 36 min |
| Jan 24, 8:28 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 47 min |
| Jan 24, 9:03 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Blount, St. Clair | 27 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Morgan County3
- Blount County3
- Marshall County3
- Jefferson County3
- St. Clair County3
- Choctaw County2
- Cullman County2
- Butler County1
- Conecuh County1
- Washington County1
- Crenshaw County1
- Covington County1
- Autauga County1
- Elmore County1
- Montgomery County1
- Tallapoosa County1
- Chambers County1
- Winston County1
- Lawrence County1
- Shelby County1
- DeKalb County1
- Mobile County1
- Tuscaloosa County1
- Madison County1
- Jackson County1
- Franklin County1
- Talladega County1
- Calhoun County1
- Cleburne County1
- Etowah 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.