Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Watches / 2008
Tornado Watches in Alabama, February 2008
9 tornado watches in February 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 February 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 9
- Busiest day
- February 6, 20085 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 5, 10:01 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bibb, Blount, Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Etowah and 23 more | 8 hr |
| Feb 6, 1:23 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Choctaw, Clarke, Mobile, Washington | 6 hr |
| Feb 6, 4:06 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Chilton and 24 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 6, 5:04 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington and 6 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 6, 7:06 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Chambers, Coffee, Dale, Geneva and 6 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 12, 12:34 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Choctaw and 24 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 12, 7:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston | 4 hr |
| Feb 17, 5:26 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh and 14 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 17, 12:32 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Chambers and 28 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Perry County5
- Clarke County5
- Mobile County5
- Washington County5
- Greene County4
- Hale County4
- Marengo County4
- Sumter County4
- Choctaw County4
- Autauga County4
- Dallas County4
- Lowndes County4
- Baldwin County4
- Butler County4
- Conecuh County4
- Covington County4
- Crenshaw County4
- Escambia County4
- Monroe County4
- Wilcox County4
- Coffee County4
- Dale County4
- Geneva County4
- Henry County4
- Houston County4
- Elmore County3
- Montgomery County3
- Barbour County3
- Bullock County3
- Pike County3
- Bibb County2
- Blount County2
- Etowah County2
- Fayette County2
- Jefferson County2
- Pickens County2
- St. Clair County2
- Shelby County2
- Tuscaloosa County2
- Walker County2
27 more counties
- Winston County2
- Chilton County2
- Clay County2
- Coosa County2
- Randolph County2
- Tallapoosa County2
- Chambers County2
- Lee County2
- Macon County2
- Russell County2
- Colbert County1
- Cullman County1
- DeKalb County1
- Franklin County1
- Jackson County1
- Lamar County1
- Lauderdale County1
- Lawrence County1
- Limestone County1
- Madison County1
- Marion County1
- Marshall County1
- Morgan County1
- Calhoun County1
- Cherokee County1
- Cleburne County1
- Talladega 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.