Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Watches / 1997
Tornado Watches in Alabama, January 1997
10 tornado watches in January 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 January 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 10
- Busiest day
- January 24, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 8, 3:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Mobile | 6 hr |
| Jan 8, 9:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington, Dale, Escambia and 5 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 15, 5:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Butler, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw, Escambia and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 15, 11:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barbour, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston, Pike | 5 hr |
| Jan 24, 4:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Mobile, Washington | 6 hr |
| Jan 24, 6:45 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Coffee and 20 more | 5 hr |
| Jan 24, 3:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bibb, Blount, Colbert, Cullman, Fayette, Franklin and 16 more | 7 hr |
| Jan 24, 4:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock and 37 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 24, 8:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Geneva, Henry, Houston | 6 hr |
| Jan 24, 9:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Choctaw, Marengo, Perry, Sumter, Washington | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Baldwin County6
- Mobile County5
- Washington County5
- Conecuh County4
- Covington County4
- Escambia County4
- Geneva County4
- Houston County4
- Monroe County4
- Coffee County3
- Dale County3
- Butler County3
- Crenshaw County3
- Barbour County3
- Henry County3
- Pike County3
- Perry County3
- Autauga County2
- Bullock County2
- Dallas County2
- Elmore County2
- Hale County2
- Lee County2
- Lowndes County2
- Macon County2
- Montgomery County2
- Russell County2
- Wilcox County2
- Bibb County2
- Blount County2
- Jackson County2
- Marshall County2
- Marengo County2
- Colbert County1
- Cullman County1
- Fayette County1
- Franklin County1
- Greene County1
- Jefferson County1
- Lamar County1
27 more counties
- Lauderdale County1
- Lawrence County1
- Limestone County1
- Madison County1
- Marion County1
- Morgan County1
- Pickens County1
- Tuscaloosa County1
- Walker County1
- Winston County1
- Calhoun County1
- Chambers County1
- Cherokee County1
- Chilton County1
- Clarke County1
- Clay County1
- Cleburne County1
- Coosa County1
- DeKalb County1
- Etowah County1
- Randolph County1
- St. Clair County1
- Shelby County1
- Talladega County1
- Tallapoosa County1
- Choctaw County1
- Sumter 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.