Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Watches / 2003
Tornado Watches in Alabama, April 2003
8 tornado watches in April 2003. 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 April 2003. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 8
- Busiest day
- April 7, 20033 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 6, 1:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bibb, Butler, Chilton, Choctaw, Clarke, Dallas and 8 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 6, 6:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Chilton, Choctaw, Cullman, Dallas and 12 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 6, 10:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington and 10 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 7, 2:55 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Barbour, Bullock, Chilton, Choctaw, Dallas and 13 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 7, 9:40 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Macon, Pike, Russell | 5 hr |
| Apr 25, 6:05 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Coffee, Covington, Geneva, Houston | 6 hr |
| Apr 25, 12:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Butler, Calhoun and 45 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 25, 5:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Coffee and 10 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Choctaw County6
- Dallas County5
- Marengo County5
- Perry County5
- Sumter County5
- Wilcox County5
- Butler County4
- Chilton County4
- Greene County4
- Hale County4
- Autauga County4
- Lowndes County4
- Bullock County4
- Macon County4
- Bibb County3
- Clarke County3
- Pickens County3
- Tuscaloosa County3
- Crenshaw County3
- Barbour County3
- Montgomery County3
- Pike County3
- Cullman County2
- Fayette County2
- Jefferson County2
- Lamar County2
- Shelby County2
- Walker County2
- Conecuh County2
- Covington County2
- Monroe County2
- Washington County2
- Elmore County2
- Lee County2
- Russell County2
- Tallapoosa County2
- Coffee County2
- Escambia County1
- Geneva County1
- Houston County1
23 more counties
- Blount County1
- Calhoun County1
- Chambers County1
- Cherokee County1
- Clay County1
- Cleburne County1
- Colbert County1
- Coosa County1
- DeKalb County1
- Etowah County1
- Franklin County1
- Jackson County1
- Lauderdale County1
- Lawrence County1
- Limestone County1
- Madison County1
- Marion County1
- Marshall County1
- Morgan County1
- Randolph County1
- St. Clair County1
- Talladega 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.