Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Watches / 2005
Tornado Watches in Alabama, April 2005
9 tornado watches in April 2005. 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 2005. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 9
- Busiest day
- April 6, 20054 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 1, 2:05 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington, Escambia, Mobile and 1 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 6, 7:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Choctaw, Greene, Mobile, Pickens, Sumter, Washington | 6 hr |
| Apr 6, 11:05 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Bullock, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke and 20 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 6, 5:20 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bibb, Chilton, Cullman, Fayette, Greene, Hale and 8 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 6, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Butler, Chilton, Choctaw, Clarke and 20 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 11, 6:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Mobile | 4 hr |
| Apr 29, 9:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Colbert, Cullman, Fayette, Franklin, Jackson, Lamar and 9 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 30, 2:40 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Choctaw, Cullman and 16 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 30, 5:05 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Chambers and 25 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Mobile County5
- Washington County5
- Pickens County5
- Conecuh County4
- Covington County4
- Escambia County4
- Choctaw County4
- Greene County4
- Sumter County4
- Fayette County4
- Lamar County4
- Walker County4
- Baldwin County3
- Coffee County3
- Autauga County3
- Butler County3
- Clarke County3
- Dallas County3
- Lowndes County3
- Marengo County3
- Monroe County3
- Perry County3
- Wilcox County3
- Bibb County3
- Chilton County3
- Cullman County3
- Hale County3
- Jefferson County3
- Marion County3
- Shelby County3
- Tuscaloosa County3
- Winston County3
- Bullock County2
- Crenshaw County2
- Elmore County2
- Lee County2
- Macon County2
- Montgomery County2
- Pike County2
- Geneva County1
22 more counties
- Colbert County1
- Franklin County1
- Jackson County1
- Lauderdale County1
- Lawrence County1
- Limestone County1
- Madison County1
- Morgan County1
- Blount County1
- Calhoun County1
- Cherokee County1
- Etowah County1
- St. Clair County1
- Barbour County1
- Chambers County1
- Clay County1
- Cleburne County1
- Coosa County1
- Randolph County1
- Russell County1
- Talladega County1
- Tallapoosa County1
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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.