Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Watches / 2000
Tornado Watches in Alabama, December 2000
6 tornado watches in December 2000. 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 December 2000. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 6
- Busiest day
- December 16, 20005 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 13, 4:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Sumter | 4 hr |
| Dec 16, 10:15 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Butler, Chilton, Choctaw and 37 more | 6 hr |
| Dec 16, 10:45 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Chambers, Coffee, Coosa, Covington and 12 more | 5 hr |
| Dec 16, 2:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Calhoun, Cherokee, Clay, Cleburne, DeKalb, Etowah and 2 more | 4 hr |
| Dec 16, 4:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Butler, Calhoun, Chambers and 38 more | 6 hr |
| Dec 16, 4:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Chambers, Coffee, Dale, Geneva and 6 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Coosa County3
- DeKalb County3
- Etowah County3
- Talladega County3
- Chambers County3
- Macon County3
- Pike County3
- Sumter County2
- Autauga County2
- Bibb County2
- Blount County2
- Butler County2
- Chilton County2
- Choctaw County2
- Clarke County2
- Conecuh County2
- Cullman County2
- Dallas County2
- Escambia County2
- Hale County2
- Jackson County2
- Jefferson County2
- Lowndes County2
- Madison County2
- Marengo County2
- Marshall County2
- Monroe County2
- Morgan County2
- Perry County2
- St. Clair County2
- Shelby County2
- Tuscaloosa County2
- Walker County2
- Washington County2
- Wilcox County2
- Barbour County2
- Bullock County2
- Coffee County2
- Covington County2
- Crenshaw County2
25 more counties
- Dale County2
- Elmore County2
- Geneva County2
- Henry County2
- Houston County2
- Lee County2
- Montgomery County2
- Russell County2
- Tallapoosa County2
- Calhoun County2
- Cherokee County2
- Clay County2
- Cleburne County2
- Randolph County2
- Colbert County1
- Fayette County1
- Franklin County1
- Greene County1
- Lamar County1
- Lauderdale County1
- Lawrence County1
- Limestone County1
- Marion County1
- Pickens County1
- Winston 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.