Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Watches / 1999
Tornado Watches in Alabama, May 1999
5 tornado watches in May 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 May 1999. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- May 6, 19993 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 8:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Colbert, Cullman, Fayette, Franklin, Greene, Jackson and 13 more | 6 hr |
| May 6, 12:30 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bibb, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee, Chilton, Clay and 13 more | 6 hr |
| May 6, 5:45 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Calhoun, Chambers and 27 more | 5 hr |
| May 7, 2:15 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Coffee, Covington, Crenshaw, Dale, Geneva, Henry and 1 more | 6 hr |
| May 7, 2:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee, Clay, Cleburne and 6 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Calhoun County3
- Chambers County3
- Cherokee County3
- Clay County3
- Cleburne County3
- Coosa County3
- Elmore County3
- Randolph County3
- Talladega County3
- Tallapoosa County3
- Chilton County2
- Autauga County2
- Coffee County2
- Covington County2
- Crenshaw County2
- Dale County2
- Geneva County2
- Henry County2
- Lee County2
- Colbert County1
- Cullman County1
- Fayette County1
- Franklin County1
- Greene County1
- Jackson County1
- Lamar County1
- Lauderdale County1
- Lawrence County1
- Limestone County1
- Madison County1
- Marion County1
- Marshall County1
- Morgan County1
- Pickens County1
- Sumter County1
- Tuscaloosa County1
- Walker County1
- Winston County1
- Bibb County1
- DeKalb County1
21 more counties
- Etowah County1
- Hale County1
- Jefferson County1
- Perry County1
- St. Clair County1
- Shelby County1
- Barbour County1
- Bullock County1
- Butler County1
- Clarke County1
- Conecuh County1
- Dallas County1
- Escambia County1
- Lowndes County1
- Macon County1
- Monroe County1
- Montgomery County1
- Pike County1
- Russell County1
- Wilcox County1
- Houston 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.