Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Watches / 1998
Tornado Watches in Alabama, April 1998
16 tornado watches in April 1998. 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 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 16
- Busiest day
- April 8, 19985 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 3, 7:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Butler, Calhoun and 45 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 3, 1:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blount, Cherokee, Cullman, DeKalb, Etowah, Jackson and 5 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 3, 3:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Russell | 6 hr |
| Apr 3, 9:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Russell | 6 hr |
| Apr 8, 10:30 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Coffee, Conecuh and 18 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 8, 11:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blount, Colbert, Cullman, Fayette, Franklin, Jackson and 10 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 8, 1:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Calhoun, Cherokee, Cleburne, DeKalb, Etowah, St. Clair | 6 hr |
| Apr 8, 2:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee and 31 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 8, 6:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chambers, Lee, Randolph | 7 hr |
| Apr 8, 7:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee and 37 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 16, 10:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Lauderdale | 6 hr |
| Apr 16, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Colbert, Cullman, Fayette, Franklin, Jackson, Lamar and 10 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 16, 6:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Choctaw, Greene, Sumter | 4 hr |
| Apr 16, 9:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee, Clay and 16 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 18, 5:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Bibb, Butler, Calhoun, Cherokee and 26 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 27, 7:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Colbert, Fayette, Franklin, Lamar, Lauderdale, Lawrence and 3 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cherokee County7
- Cullman County7
- DeKalb County7
- Etowah County7
- Jackson County7
- Marshall County7
- Morgan County7
- Winston County7
- Blount County6
- Calhoun County6
- Cleburne County6
- Fayette County6
- Franklin County6
- Lauderdale County6
- Lawrence County6
- Limestone County6
- Madison County6
- Marion County6
- St. Clair County6
- Walker County6
- Autauga County5
- Bibb County5
- Chambers County5
- Clay County5
- Colbert County5
- Coosa County5
- Elmore County5
- Jefferson County5
- Lee County5
- Perry County5
- Randolph County5
- Shelby County5
- Talladega County5
- Lamar County5
- Chilton County4
- Dallas County4
- Greene County4
- Hale County4
- Pickens County4
- Sumter County4
27 more counties
- Tallapoosa County4
- Tuscaloosa County4
- Butler County3
- Choctaw County3
- Lowndes County3
- Macon County3
- Montgomery County3
- Wilcox County3
- Russell County3
- Bullock County2
- Crenshaw County2
- Marengo County2
- Pike County2
- Conecuh County2
- Escambia County2
- Monroe County2
- Barbour County1
- Coffee County1
- Covington County1
- Dale County1
- Geneva County1
- Henry County1
- Houston County1
- Baldwin County1
- Clarke County1
- Mobile County1
- Washington County1
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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.