Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Watches / 1998
Tornado Watches in Alabama, September 1998
6 tornado watches in September 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 September 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 6
- Busiest day
- September 28, 19983 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 27, 1:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington, Escambia, Geneva and 3 more | 12 hr |
| Sep 28, 1:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Barbour, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Coffee and 13 more | 12 hr |
| Sep 28, 1:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Barbour, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Coffee and 13 more | 12 hr |
| Sep 28, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Bullock, Chambers, Chilton, Coosa and 14 more | 10 hr |
| Sep 28, 10:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Chambers and 21 more | 12 hr |
| Sep 29, 10:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Chambers, Coffee, Coosa, Dale and 9 more | 9 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Coffee County5
- Geneva County5
- Houston County5
- Baldwin County4
- Conecuh County4
- Covington County4
- Escambia County4
- Washington County4
- Barbour County4
- Dale County4
- Henry County4
- Pike County4
- Mobile County3
- Butler County3
- Clarke County3
- Crenshaw County3
- Monroe County3
- Wilcox County3
- Bullock County3
- Chambers County3
- Elmore County3
- Lee County3
- Macon County3
- Choctaw County2
- Autauga County2
- Coosa County2
- Dallas County2
- Lowndes County2
- Montgomery County2
- Tallapoosa County2
- Russell County2
- Bibb County1
- Chilton County1
- Greene County1
- Hale County1
- Perry County1
- Pickens County1
- Shelby County1
- Sumter County1
- Tuscaloosa 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.