Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Watches / 2005
Tornado Watches in Alabama, August 2005
5 tornado watches in August 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 August 2005. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- August 29, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 28, 4:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Butler, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington, Escambia and 3 more | 9 hr |
| Aug 29, 2:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Butler, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw and 5 more | 8 hr |
| Aug 29, 10:25 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bibb, Bullock, Butler and 38 more | 8 hr |
| Aug 29, 3:25 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Cleburne, Colbert, Cullman and 17 more | 3 hr |
| Aug 29, 6:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Butler and 40 more | 10 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Butler County4
- Conecuh County4
- Covington County4
- Baldwin County3
- Clarke County3
- Escambia County3
- Mobile County3
- Monroe County3
- Washington County3
- Crenshaw County3
- Wilcox County2
- Autauga County2
- Barbour County2
- Bibb County2
- Bullock County2
- Chambers County2
- Chilton County2
- Clay County2
- Coffee County2
- Coosa County2
- Dale County2
- Dallas County2
- Elmore County2
- Geneva County2
- Henry County2
- Houston County2
- Lee County2
- Lowndes County2
- Macon County2
- Montgomery County2
- Pike County2
- Randolph County2
- Russell County2
- Shelby County2
- Talladega County2
- Tallapoosa County2
- Blount County2
- Calhoun County2
- Cherokee County2
- Cleburne County2
27 more counties
- Cullman County2
- DeKalb County2
- Etowah County2
- Jackson County2
- Jefferson County2
- Lawrence County2
- Limestone County2
- Madison County2
- Marshall County2
- Morgan County2
- St. Clair County2
- Walker County2
- Winston County2
- Choctaw County1
- Greene County1
- Hale County1
- Marengo County1
- Perry County1
- Pickens County1
- Sumter County1
- Tuscaloosa County1
- Colbert County1
- Fayette County1
- Franklin County1
- Lamar County1
- Lauderdale County1
- Marion 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.