Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Watches / 1997
Tornado Watches in Alabama, May 1997
6 tornado watches in May 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 May 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 6
- Busiest day
- May 3, 19973 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Butler, Calhoun, Cherokee and 45 more | 6 hr |
| May 2, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Lamar, Marion, Pickens, Sumter | 6 hr |
| May 2, 8:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee and 29 more | 6 hr |
| May 3, 12:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Lamar, Pickens | 6 hr |
| May 3, 2:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee and 29 more | 6 hr |
| May 28, 12:15 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Escambia, Fayette, Greene and 10 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Lamar County6
- Pickens County6
- Fayette County4
- Greene County4
- Hale County4
- Marengo County4
- Perry County4
- Sumter County4
- Tuscaloosa County4
- Autauga County3
- Bibb County3
- Blount County3
- Calhoun County3
- Cherokee County3
- Chilton County3
- Choctaw County3
- Clay County3
- Cleburne County3
- Coosa County3
- Cullman County3
- Dallas County3
- DeKalb County3
- Elmore County3
- Etowah County3
- Jefferson County3
- Marion County3
- Marshall County3
- Randolph County3
- St. Clair County3
- Shelby County3
- Talladega County3
- Tallapoosa County3
- Walker County3
- Winston County3
- Clarke County2
- Conecuh County2
- Monroe County2
- Morgan County2
- Wilcox County2
- Chambers County2
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. Rebuilt daily.