Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Watches / 1998
Tornado Watches in Alabama, February 1998
4 tornado watches in February 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 February 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 4
- Busiest day
- February 16, 19981 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 16, 12:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Chambers, Clay and 21 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 16, 6:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Butler, Clarke, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington and 9 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 26, 3:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Dallas and 7 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 26, 7:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington and 12 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Butler County4
- Conecuh County4
- Escambia County4
- Coffee County3
- Covington County3
- Crenshaw County3
- Dale County3
- Geneva County3
- Lowndes County3
- Monroe County3
- Barbour County2
- Bullock County2
- Henry County2
- Houston County2
- Macon County2
- Montgomery County2
- Pike County2
- Russell County2
- Baldwin County2
- Clarke County2
- Mobile County2
- Washington County2
- Dallas County2
- Wilcox County2
- Autauga County1
- Chambers County1
- Clay County1
- Cleburne County1
- Coosa County1
- Elmore County1
- Lee County1
- Randolph County1
- Talladega County1
- Tallapoosa County1
- Choctaw County1
- Marengo 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.