Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Watches / 2004
Tornado Watches in Alabama, December 2004
5 tornado watches in December 2004. 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 2004. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- December 7, 20041 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 7, 3:25 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bibb, Blount, Cullman, Fayette, Franklin, Greene and 17 more | 5 hr |
| Dec 9, 4:45 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Chilton, Choctaw, Clarke, Coosa and 14 more | 5 hr |
| Dec 9, 10:25 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Houston | 4 hr |
| Dec 22, 2:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Choctaw, Clarke, Washington | 6 hr |
| Dec 22, 7:05 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Coffee, Conecuh, Covington, Dale, Escambia, Geneva and 2 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Bibb County2
- Greene County2
- Hale County2
- Jefferson County2
- Perry County2
- Pickens County2
- Shelby County2
- Sumter County2
- Tuscaloosa County2
- Choctaw County2
- Clarke County2
- Houston County2
- Blount County1
- Cullman County1
- Fayette County1
- Franklin County1
- Jackson County1
- Lamar County1
- Lawrence County1
- Limestone County1
- Madison County1
- Marion County1
- Marshall County1
- Morgan County1
- Walker County1
- Winston County1
- Autauga County1
- Chilton County1
- Coosa County1
- Dallas County1
- Lowndes County1
- Marengo County1
- Montgomery County1
- Talladega County1
- Wilcox County1
- Washington County1
- Coffee County1
- Conecuh County1
- Covington County1
- Dale County1
3 more counties
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.