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Tornado Warnings in Alabama, 2018

85 tornado warnings in 2018. 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 2018. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
85
Busiest month
March24 tornado warnings
Busiest day
March 19, 201813 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 7, 10:21 AM CSTTornado WarningTAECoffee24 min
Feb 10, 12:56 PM CSTTornado WarningMOBBaldwin27 min
Feb 10, 5:10 PM CSTTornado WarningMOBWashington35 min
Feb 11, 3:21 AM CSTTornado WarningTAEGeneva, Houston39 min
Feb 11, 3:46 AM CSTTornado Warning Tornado observedTAEHouston32 min
Mar 19, 1:38 PM CDTTornado WarningHUNColbert23 min
Mar 19, 4:58 PM CDTTornado WarningHUNColbert, Franklin32 min
Mar 19, 5:13 PM CDTTornado WarningHUNColbert15 min
Mar 19, 5:20 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedHUNFranklin, Lawrence40 min
Mar 19, 5:27 PM CDTTornado WarningHUNColbert, Franklin, Lawrence33 min
Mar 19, 5:54 PM CDTTornado WarningHUNFranklin, Lawrence40 min
Mar 19, 5:57 PM CDTTornado WarningHUNFranklin, Lawrence48 min
Mar 19, 6:04 PM CDTTornado WarningHUNLauderdale, Limestone26 min
Mar 19, 6:25 PM CDTTornado WarningHUNLimestone, Madison35 min
Mar 19, 6:25 PM CDTTornado WarningHUNCullman, Lawrence, Morgan35 min
Mar 19, 6:48 PM CDTTornado WarningHUNCullman, Marshall, Morgan27 min
Mar 19, 6:55 PM CDTTornado WarningHUNMadison35 min
Mar 19, 6:57 PM CDTTornado WarningHUNCullman33 min
Mar 19, 7:11 PM CDTTornado WarningHUNCullman, Marshall34 min
Mar 19, 7:18 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXBlount31 min
Mar 19, 7:29 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXEtowah61 min
Mar 19, 7:31 PM CDTTornado WarningHUNJackson10 min
Mar 19, 7:41 PM CDTTornado WarningHUNDeKalb, Marshall34 min
Mar 19, 8:02 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXCherokee58 min
Mar 19, 8:15 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXCalhoun, Etowah45 min
Mar 19, 8:33 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXSt. Clair42 min
Mar 19, 8:38 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXCleburne46 min
Mar 19, 8:48 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXCalhoun42 min
Mar 19, 9:05 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXCalhoun21 min
Apr 3, 9:40 PM CDTTornado WarningHUNColbert, Lauderdale, Lawrence20 min
Apr 14, 11:36 AM CDTTornado WarningBMXFayette, Lamar24 min
Apr 14, 12:05 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXGreene, Pickens25 min
Apr 14, 12:34 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXWalker, Winston20 min
Apr 14, 12:41 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXTuscaloosa13 min
Apr 14, 1:07 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXHale16 min
Apr 22, 1:26 PM CDTTornado WarningMOBEscambia34 min
Apr 22, 1:47 PM CDTTornado WarningMOBCrenshaw28 min
Apr 22, 1:57 PM CDTTornado WarningMOBEscambia33 min
Apr 22, 2:09 PM CDTTornado WarningMOBButler, Covington, Crenshaw23 min
Apr 22, 2:11 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedMOBCrenshaw19 min
Apr 22, 2:15 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXMontgomery30 min
Apr 22, 2:29 PM CDTTornado WarningMOBConecuh, Covington, Escambia13 min
Apr 22, 3:03 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXBarbour27 min
Apr 22, 3:22 PM CDTTornado WarningTAEHenry23 min
Apr 22, 3:25 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXBarbour35 min
Apr 22, 3:25 PM CDTTornado WarningMOBBaldwin35 min
Apr 22, 3:36 PM CDTTornado WarningTAEDale, Henry, Houston24 min
Apr 22, 4:18 PM CDTTornado WarningTAEHenry27 min
Jun 22, 12:46 PM CDTTornado WarningHUNMadison29 min
Jun 22, 7:07 PM CDTTornado WarningHUNCullman23 min
Jun 22, 7:31 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedHUNCullman29 min
Jun 22, 8:00 PM CDTTornado WarningHUNCullman13 min
Jun 22, 8:01 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXBlount29 min
Jun 23, 5:17 PM CDTTornado WarningHUNColbert, Franklin28 min
Jun 23, 5:45 PM CDTTornado WarningHUNColbert, Franklin, Lawrence30 min
Jun 23, 8:05 PM CDTTornado WarningHUNLauderdale25 min
Jul 21, 5:47 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXLee27 min
Jul 21, 5:58 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedBMXLee16 min
Jul 22, 2:29 PM CDTTornado WarningMOBClarke23 min
Sep 4, 4:28 PM CDTTornado WarningTAEGeneva32 min
Sep 5, 12:53 AM CDTTornado WarningMOBBaldwin25 min
Nov 1, 5:57 AM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedHUNFranklin18 min
Nov 1, 6:14 AM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedHUNColbert, Franklin9 min
Nov 1, 6:29 AM CDTTornado WarningMOBWashington46 min
Nov 1, 7:02 AM CDTTornado WarningMOBChoctaw, Clarke31 min
Nov 1, 7:03 AM CDTTornado WarningMOBBaldwin, Mobile27 min
Nov 1, 7:25 AM CDTTornado WarningMOBBaldwin35 min
Nov 1, 11:04 AM CDTTornado WarningTAEDale26 min
Nov 1, 11:43 AM CDTTornado WarningHUNDeKalb, Jackson32 min
Nov 5, 10:26 PM CSTTornado WarningTAEGeneva23 min
Nov 5, 10:55 PM CSTTornado WarningHUNColbert, Lauderdale35 min
Nov 5, 11:46 PM CSTTornado WarningHUNColbert, Franklin29 min
Nov 5, 11:55 PM CSTTornado WarningHUNLauderdale13 min
Nov 6, 12:02 AM CSTTornado WarningHUNColbert, Lauderdale28 min
Nov 6, 12:19 AM CSTTornado WarningHUNColbert, Franklin, Lawrence26 min
Nov 6, 1:56 AM CSTTornado WarningBMXLamar34 min
Nov 6, 2:22 AM CSTTornado Warning Tornado observedBMXFayette, Lamar13 min
Nov 6, 2:32 AM CSTTornado WarningHUNJackson28 min
Nov 6, 3:06 AM CSTTornado WarningHUNDeKalb9 min
Nov 6, 3:12 AM CSTTornado WarningBMXGreene, Pickens34 min
Dec 1, 2:57 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXChilton, Dallas, Perry33 min
Dec 1, 3:19 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXAutauga, Chilton, Dallas41 min
Dec 2, 4:02 AM CSTTornado WarningTAEDale, Geneva, Henry, Houston28 min
Dec 28, 2:47 AM CSTTornado WarningMOBWashington28 min
Dec 28, 11:02 AM CSTTornado WarningTAEHenry, Houston28 min

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

7 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. March 19, 201813tornado warnings
  2. April 22, 201813tornado warnings
  3. March 20, 201811tornado warnings
  4. November 6, 201811tornado warnings
  5. November 1, 20188tornado warnings
  6. June 23, 20186tornado warnings
  7. April 14, 20185tornado warnings
  8. February 10, 20182tornado warnings
  9. February 11, 20182tornado warnings
  10. July 21, 20182tornado warnings
  11. December 1, 20182tornado warnings
  12. December 28, 20182tornado warnings

Nearby

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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.