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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 27, 1:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington, Escambia, Geneva and 3 more12 hr
Sep 28, 1:00 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin, Barbour, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Coffee and 13 more12 hr
Sep 28, 1:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin, Barbour, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Coffee and 13 more12 hr
Sep 28, 3:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAutauga, Bibb, Bullock, Chambers, Chilton, Coosa and 14 more10 hr
Sep 28, 10:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAutauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Chambers and 21 more12 hr
Sep 29, 10:00 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarbour, Bullock, Chambers, Coffee, Coosa, Dale and 9 more9 hr

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

Nearby

Alerts in force nowTornadoes on recordThe radar archive19971999

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.