Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Watches / 2006
Tornado Watches in Alabama, April 2006
7 tornado watches in April 2006. 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 2006. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 7
- Busiest day
- April 8, 20062 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 3, 1:06 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blount, Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Etowah, Fayette and 17 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 7, 11:34 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bibb, Blount, Colbert, Cullman, Fayette, Franklin and 16 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 7, 7:28 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee and 37 more | 9 hr |
| Apr 8, 9:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barbour, Coffee, Covington, Crenshaw, Dale, Escambia and 4 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 19, 2:54 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barbour, Blount, Bullock, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee and 19 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 19, 2:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barbour, Blount, Bullock, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee and 15 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 21, 10:48 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Escambia, Mobile | 4 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Blount County5
- Cullman County5
- Shelby County5
- Etowah County4
- Jefferson County4
- Marshall County4
- Morgan County4
- St. Clair County4
- Colbert County3
- DeKalb County3
- Fayette County3
- Franklin County3
- Lamar County3
- Lauderdale County3
- Lawrence County3
- Limestone County3
- Madison County3
- Marion County3
- Pickens County3
- Tuscaloosa County3
- Walker County3
- Winston County3
- Calhoun County3
- Chambers County3
- Cherokee County3
- Clay County3
- Cleburne County3
- Coosa County3
- Elmore County3
- Randolph County3
- Talladega County3
- Tallapoosa County3
- Barbour County3
- Jackson County2
- Bibb County2
- Greene County2
- Hale County2
- Sumter County2
- Escambia County2
- Pike 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.