Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Watches / 2008
Tornado Watches in Alabama, December 2008
3 tornado watches in December 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 December 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 3
- Busiest day
- December 10, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 9, 8:03 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Bibb, Blount, Choctaw, Clarke, Dallas and 18 more | 6 hr |
| Dec 10, 1:41 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock and 40 more | 5 hr |
| Dec 10, 6:47 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Chambers and 22 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Baldwin County3
- Monroe County3
- Bibb County2
- Blount County2
- Choctaw County2
- Clarke County2
- Dallas County2
- Greene County2
- Hale County2
- Jefferson County2
- Marengo County2
- Mobile County2
- Perry County2
- Shelby County2
- Sumter County2
- Tuscaloosa County2
- Walker County2
- Washington County2
- Wilcox County2
- Autauga County2
- Barbour County2
- Bullock County2
- Butler County2
- Chambers County2
- Clay County2
- Cleburne County2
- Conecuh County2
- Coosa County2
- Covington County2
- Crenshaw County2
- Elmore County2
- Escambia County2
- Lee County2
- Lowndes County2
- Macon County2
- Montgomery County2
- Pike County2
- Randolph County2
- Russell County2
- Tallapoosa 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.