Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Watches / 1997

Tornado Watches in Alabama, April 1997

8 tornado watches in April 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 watches reaches back to 1997.

Tornado Watches by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in April 1997. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
8
Busiest day
April 22, 19974 tornado watches

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 22, 8:45 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCSumter6 hr
Apr 22, 11:15 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCLamar, Pickens6 hr
Apr 22, 1:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAutauga, Baldwin, Bibb, Blount, Chilton, Choctaw and 34 more8 hr
Apr 22, 2:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarbour, Bullock, Butler, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee and 22 more6 hr
Apr 22, 9:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Coffee, Conecuh and 14 more6 hr
Apr 27, 2:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke and 18 more6 hr
Apr 27, 8:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCoffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston6 hr
Apr 28, 2:00 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarbour, Coffee, Crenshaw, Dale, Geneva, Henry and 2 more6 hr

By county

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

27 more counties

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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.