Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Watches / 1997
Tornado Watches in Alabama, March 1997
11 tornado watches in March 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 March 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
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- Busiest day
- March 3, 19973 tornado watches
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 1:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Colbert, Franklin, Lauderdale | 5 hr |
| Mar 2, 1:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Choctaw | 6 hr |
| Mar 2, 4:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Choctaw, Sumter | 6 hr |
| Mar 2, 10:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Chilton, Choctaw, Clarke and 20 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 2, 11:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blount, Cherokee, Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Etowah and 10 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 3, 4:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee, Clay, Cleburne, Elmore and 4 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 5, 11:30 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Colbert, Cullman, Fayette, Franklin, Jackson, Lamar and 10 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 5, 3:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Clay, Cleburne, DeKalb and 7 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 13, 5:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Chambers, Clay, Coffee, Coosa and 15 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 28, 9:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Colbert, Jackson, Lauderdale, Limestone, Madison | 6 hr |
| Mar 28, 11:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cleburne | 4 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Colbert County4
- Lauderdale County4
- Franklin County3
- Choctaw County3
- Blount County3
- Elmore County3
- Talladega County3
- Cherokee County3
- Jackson County3
- Limestone County3
- Madison County3
- Clay County3
- Cleburne County3
- Randolph County3
- Sumter County2
- Coosa County2
- Fayette County2
- Jefferson County2
- Lamar County2
- Montgomery County2
- Pickens County2
- St. Clair County2
- Shelby County2
- Tuscaloosa County2
- Walker County2
- Cullman County2
- DeKalb County2
- Etowah County2
- Lawrence County2
- Marion County2
- Marshall County2
- Morgan County2
- Winston County2
- Calhoun County2
- Chambers County2
- Lee County2
- Macon County2
- Tallapoosa County2
- Autauga County1
- Bibb County1
20 more counties
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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.