Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Watches / 2008
Tornado Watches in Alabama, August 2008
9 tornado watches in August 2008. 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 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 9
- Busiest day
- August 24, 20083 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 12, 2:21 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington and 6 more | 8 hr |
| Aug 13, 3:02 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Barbour, Bullock, Coffee, Dale, Elmore and 10 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 23, 7:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Chambers, Chilton and 13 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 24, 2:51 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Bullock, Chambers, Chilton and 14 more | 4 hr |
| Aug 24, 11:47 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Bullock, Butler, Calhoun and 38 more | 8 hr |
| Aug 25, 1:10 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Coffee, Conecuh and 14 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 25, 7:28 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Butler and 41 more | 13 hr |
| Aug 25, 11:56 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Franklin, Jackson, Lauderdale and 5 more | 3 hr |
| Aug 26, 1:36 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Chambers, Coffee, Dale, Geneva and 7 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Barbour County6
- Bullock County6
- Lee County6
- Macon County6
- Montgomery County6
- Pike County6
- Russell County6
- Butler County5
- Crenshaw County5
- Wilcox County5
- Autauga County5
- Coffee County5
- Dale County5
- Elmore County5
- Geneva County5
- Lowndes County5
- Tallapoosa County5
- Chambers County5
- Conecuh County4
- Covington County4
- Escambia County4
- Monroe County4
- Henry County4
- Houston County4
- Chilton County4
- Coosa County4
- Dallas County4
- Randolph County4
- Perry County3
- Bibb County3
- Clay County3
- Jefferson County3
- St. Clair County3
- Shelby County3
- Talladega County3
- Tuscaloosa County3
- Baldwin County2
- Choctaw County2
- Clarke County2
- Mobile County2
24 more counties
- Washington County2
- Calhoun County2
- Cleburne County2
- Fayette County2
- Greene County2
- Hale County2
- Lamar County2
- Pickens County2
- Walker County2
- Marengo County1
- Blount County1
- Cherokee County1
- Etowah County1
- Colbert County1
- Cullman County1
- DeKalb County1
- Franklin County1
- Jackson County1
- Lauderdale County1
- Lawrence County1
- Limestone County1
- Madison County1
- Marshall County1
- Morgan 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.