Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings / 2008
Tornado Warnings in Alabama, April 2008
54 tornado warnings in April 2008. 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 April 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 54
- Busiest day
- April 11, 200825 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 4, 8:29 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | HUN | Lauderdale, Limestone | 31 min |
| Apr 4, 12:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HUN | DeKalb | 26 min |
| Apr 4, 12:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HUN | DeKalb | 28 min |
| Apr 4, 12:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Cherokee | 35 min |
| Apr 4, 1:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Shelby, Talladega | 47 min |
| Apr 4, 1:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Talladega | 45 min |
| Apr 4, 1:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Cherokee | 30 min |
| Apr 4, 1:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Bibb | 35 min |
| Apr 4, 1:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Dallas, Hale, Marengo, Perry | 47 min |
| Apr 4, 2:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Bibb, Jefferson, St. Clair, Shelby | 44 min |
| Apr 4, 2:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Cleburne, Talladega | 51 min |
| Apr 4, 2:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke | 29 min |
| Apr 4, 2:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Autauga, Chilton, Dallas, Perry | 42 min |
| Apr 4, 2:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Wilcox | 53 min |
| Apr 4, 3:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Autauga, Chilton, Coosa | 43 min |
| Apr 4, 3:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Wilcox | 15 min |
| Apr 4, 3:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Cherokee, Cleburne | 29 min |
| Apr 4, 3:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Dallas, Lowndes | 43 min |
| Apr 4, 3:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Coosa, Tallapoosa | 44 min |
| Apr 4, 4:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Shelby | 27 min |
| Apr 4, 5:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Washington | 52 min |
| Apr 4, 5:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Wilcox | 29 min |
| Apr 4, 5:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Dallas | 37 min |
| Apr 4, 6:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Washington | 32 min |
| Apr 4, 7:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Chambers, Lee | 36 min |
| Apr 4, 7:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Mobile, Washington | 50 min |
| Apr 11, 12:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Fayette, Marion, Walker, Winston | 35 min |
| Apr 11, 12:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Walker, Winston | 38 min |
| Apr 11, 1:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HUN | Cullman | 44 min |
| Apr 11, 1:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HUN | Cullman, Morgan | 39 min |
| Apr 11, 1:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HUN | Lawrence | 25 min |
| Apr 11, 1:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HUN | Madison | 35 min |
| Apr 11, 2:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HUN | Madison, Marshall, Morgan | 37 min |
| Apr 11, 2:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HUN | Lawrence, Morgan | 34 min |
| Apr 11, 2:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Fayette, Marion, Walker, Winston | 46 min |
| Apr 11, 2:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Winston | 22 min |
| Apr 11, 2:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HUN | Cullman | 33 min |
| Apr 11, 2:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HUN | Cullman | 30 min |
| Apr 11, 3:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Fayette, Pickens, Tuscaloosa | 25 min |
| Apr 11, 3:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HUN | Cullman | 32 min |
| Apr 11, 3:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jefferson, Tuscaloosa, Walker | 40 min |
| Apr 11, 4:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Cherokee, Etowah, St. Clair | 44 min |
| Apr 11, 4:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Blount, Jefferson, St. Clair | 42 min |
| Apr 11, 4:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Washington | 53 min |
| Apr 11, 4:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Cherokee, Etowah | 33 min |
| Apr 11, 4:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Blount, Calhoun, Etowah, St. Clair | 24 min |
| Apr 11, 5:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Washington | 30 min |
| Apr 11, 5:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke | 41 min |
| Apr 11, 5:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Bibb, Chilton, Perry | 49 min |
| Apr 11, 6:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Bibb, Chilton, Perry | 51 min |
| Apr 11, 6:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Clay, Talladega | 29 min |
| Apr 11, 7:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Chilton, Coosa | 35 min |
| Apr 11, 7:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Clay, Randolph | 45 min |
| Apr 18, 7:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Washington | 50 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Calhoun County6
- Washington County6
- Cherokee County5
- Chilton County5
- Cullman County5
- Talladega County4
- Bibb County4
- Dallas County4
- Perry County4
- St. Clair County4
- Walker County4
- Winston County4
- Shelby County3
- Jefferson County3
- Wilcox County3
- Coosa County3
- Fayette County3
- Morgan County3
- Etowah County3
- DeKalb County2
- Cleburne County2
- Clarke County2
- Autauga County2
- Marion County2
- Lawrence County2
- Madison County2
- Tuscaloosa County2
- Blount County2
- Choctaw County2
- Clay County2
- Lauderdale County1
- Limestone County1
- Hale County1
- Marengo County1
- Lowndes County1
- Tallapoosa County1
- Chambers County1
- Lee County1
- Mobile County1
- Marshall County1
2 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.