Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Watches / 1997
Tornado Watches in Alabama, February 1997
5 tornado watches in February 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 February 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- February 21, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 21, 4:45 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bibb, Choctaw, Clarke, Greene, Hale, Marengo and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 21, 4:45 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Colbert, Cullman, Fayette, Franklin, Jefferson, Lamar and 11 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 21, 7:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Clay, Cleburne, Cullman and 16 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 21, 9:15 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bibb, Bullock, Butler and 30 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 27, 12:15 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bibb, Blount, Colbert, Cullman, Fayette, Franklin and 12 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Bibb County3
- Cullman County3
- Jefferson County3
- Lawrence County3
- Limestone County3
- Madison County3
- Morgan County3
- Tuscaloosa County3
- Walker County3
- Winston County3
- Clarke County2
- Greene County2
- Hale County2
- Marengo County2
- Perry County2
- Washington County2
- Colbert County2
- Fayette County2
- Franklin County2
- Lamar County2
- Lauderdale County2
- Marion County2
- Pickens County2
- Shelby County2
- Blount County2
- Choctaw County1
- Sumter County1
- Calhoun County1
- Cherokee County1
- Clay County1
- Cleburne County1
- DeKalb County1
- Etowah County1
- Jackson County1
- Marshall County1
- Randolph County1
- St. Clair County1
- Talladega County1
- Autauga County1
- Baldwin County1
27 more counties
- Barbour County1
- Bullock County1
- Butler County1
- Chambers County1
- Chilton County1
- Coffee County1
- Conecuh County1
- Coosa County1
- Covington County1
- Crenshaw County1
- Dale County1
- Dallas County1
- Elmore County1
- Escambia County1
- Geneva County1
- Henry County1
- Houston County1
- Lee County1
- Lowndes County1
- Macon County1
- Mobile County1
- Monroe County1
- Montgomery County1
- Pike County1
- Russell County1
- Tallapoosa County1
- Wilcox 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.