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Tornado Watches in Alabama, 1999

25 tornado watches in 1999. 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 1999. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
25
Busiest month
January9 tornado watches
Busiest day
January 2, 19993 tornado watches

Over time

By month

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
Jan 2, 3:00 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCMobile6 hr
Jan 2, 9:00 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin, Butler, Clarke, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington and 8 more6 hr
Jan 2, 2:15 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBarbour, Henry, Houston6 hr
Jan 8, 8:00 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCLamar, Marion, Winston6 hr
Jan 22, 12:45 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAutauga, Bibb, Blount, Butler, Chilton, Choctaw and 30 more6 hr
Jan 22, 2:15 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCLamar, Pickens6 hr
Jan 22, 7:00 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAutauga, Bibb, Blount, Chilton, Choctaw, Clarke and 31 more6 hr
Jan 22, 9:00 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin, Mobile5 hr
Jan 23, 1:00 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCAutauga, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Chambers, Chilton and 20 more6 hr
Mar 8, 10:30 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCChoctaw, Clarke, Dallas, Marengo, Washington6 hr
Mar 9, 1:00 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington, Escambia, Mobile and 2 more5 hr
Mar 13, 10:00 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin, Butler, Clarke, Conecuh, Escambia, Mobile and 2 more5 hr
Mar 13, 4:00 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin, Mobile5 hr
Mar 13, 8:15 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin, Coffee, Covington, Dale, Escambia, Geneva and 3 more6 hr
Mar 14, 2:00 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCBarbour, Henry, Houston5 hr
Apr 14, 10:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCColbert, Fayette, Franklin, Greene, Lamar, Lauderdale and 6 more6 hr
Apr 15, 12:00 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAutauga, Bibb, Butler, Chilton, Choctaw, Clarke and 24 more6 hr
Apr 15, 6:30 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarbour, Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston6 hr
May 5, 8:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCColbert, Cullman, Fayette, Franklin, Greene, Jackson and 13 more6 hr
May 6, 12:30 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBibb, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee, Chilton, Clay and 13 more6 hr
May 6, 5:45 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAutauga, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Calhoun, Chambers and 27 more5 hr
May 7, 2:15 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCCoffee, Covington, Crenshaw, Dale, Geneva, Henry and 1 more6 hr
May 7, 2:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAutauga, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee, Clay, Cleburne and 6 more6 hr
Jun 2, 2:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCalhoun, Chambers, Cherokee, Chilton, Clay, Cleburne and 9 more5 hr
Dec 9, 7:30 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCChoctaw, Colbert, Fayette, Franklin, Greene, Lamar and 9 more6 hr

By county

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

27 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. January 2, 19993tornado watches
  2. January 23, 19993tornado watches
  3. April 15, 19993tornado watches
  4. May 6, 19993tornado watches
  5. January 22, 19992tornado watches
  6. March 9, 19992tornado watches
  7. March 13, 19992tornado watches
  8. March 14, 19992tornado watches
  9. May 7, 19992tornado watches
  10. January 9, 19991tornado watches
  11. June 2, 19991tornado watches
  12. December 10, 19991tornado watches

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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.