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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22, 8:45 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Sumter | 6 hr |
| Apr 22, 11:15 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Lamar, Pickens | 6 hr |
| Apr 22, 1:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Bibb, Blount, Chilton, Choctaw and 34 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 22, 2:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee and 22 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 22, 9:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Coffee, Conecuh and 14 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 27, 2:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke and 18 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 27, 8:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston | 6 hr |
| Apr 28, 2:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barbour, Coffee, Crenshaw, Dale, Geneva, Henry and 2 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Coffee County5
- Dale County5
- Geneva County5
- Henry County5
- Houston County5
- Barbour County4
- Crenshaw County4
- Pike County4
- Baldwin County3
- Escambia County3
- Mobile County3
- Monroe County3
- Washington County3
- Bullock County3
- Butler County3
- Conecuh County3
- Covington County3
- Montgomery County3
- Russell County3
- Sumter County2
- Lamar County2
- Pickens County2
- Choctaw County2
- Clarke County2
- DeKalb County2
- Marengo County2
- Wilcox County2
- Lowndes County2
- Macon County2
- Autauga County1
- Bibb County1
- Blount County1
- Chilton County1
- Colbert County1
- Cullman County1
- Dallas County1
- Etowah County1
- Fayette County1
- Franklin County1
- Greene County1
27 more counties
- Hale County1
- Jackson County1
- Jefferson County1
- Lauderdale County1
- Lawrence County1
- Limestone County1
- Madison County1
- Marion County1
- Marshall County1
- Morgan County1
- Perry County1
- St. Clair County1
- Shelby County1
- Tuscaloosa County1
- Walker County1
- Winston County1
- Calhoun County1
- Chambers County1
- Cherokee County1
- Clay County1
- Cleburne County1
- Coosa County1
- Elmore County1
- Lee County1
- Randolph County1
- Talladega County1
- Tallapoosa 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.