Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Watches / 2003
Tornado Watches in Alabama, February 2003
7 tornado watches in February 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 February 2003. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 7
- Busiest day
- February 22, 20036 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 15, 5:40 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Butler, Chilton, Choctaw and 19 more | 4 hr |
| Feb 21, 8:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Butler, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw and 4 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 21, 11:40 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry and 5 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 22, 12:35 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Bibb, Bullock, Butler, Calhoun and 37 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 22, 3:35 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blount, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee, Chilton, Clay and 12 more | 2 hr |
| Feb 22, 5:50 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Henry, Houston | 5 hr |
| Feb 22, 10:35 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | DeKalb, Jackson | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Butler County3
- Chilton County3
- Clarke County3
- Conecuh County3
- Monroe County3
- Shelby County3
- Washington County3
- Autauga County2
- Bibb County2
- Blount County2
- Choctaw County2
- Dallas County2
- Fayette County2
- Greene County2
- Hale County2
- Jefferson County2
- Lamar County2
- Lowndes County2
- Marengo County2
- Perry County2
- Pickens County2
- Sumter County2
- Tuscaloosa County2
- Walker County2
- Wilcox County2
- Baldwin County2
- Covington County2
- Crenshaw County2
- Escambia County2
- Mobile County2
- Bullock County2
- Coffee County2
- Geneva County2
- Henry County2
- Houston County2
- Macon County2
- Pike County2
- Calhoun County2
- Clay County2
- Cleburne County2
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. Rebuilt daily.