Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Watches / 2008
Tornado Watches in Alabama, May 2008
8 tornado watches in May 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 May 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 8
- Busiest day
- May 11, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 4:43 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Colbert, Fayette, Franklin, Lamar, Lauderdale, Lawrence and 6 more | 7 hr |
| May 3, 4:07 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Choctaw, Mobile, Washington | 7 hr |
| May 8, 8:04 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Colbert, Cullman, Fayette, Franklin, Lamar, Lauderdale and 9 more | 6 hr |
| May 8, 12:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Chilton, Choctaw and 29 more | 5 hr |
| May 10, 7:08 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Clay, Cleburne, Colbert and 23 more | 7 hr |
| May 11, 1:37 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Calhoun and 33 more | 7 hr |
| May 11, 4:52 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston | 8 hr |
| May 15, 8:58 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Coffee, Conecuh and 11 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Pickens County5
- Fayette County4
- Lamar County4
- Lawrence County4
- Limestone County4
- Madison County4
- Marion County4
- Morgan County4
- Winston County4
- Tuscaloosa County4
- Walker County4
- Colbert County3
- Franklin County3
- Lauderdale County3
- Choctaw County3
- Washington County3
- Cullman County3
- Blount County3
- Calhoun County3
- Cherokee County3
- Clay County3
- Cleburne County3
- Etowah County3
- Jefferson County3
- St. Clair County3
- Shelby County3
- Talladega County3
- Mobile County2
- Bibb County2
- Chilton County2
- Clarke County2
- Coosa County2
- Dallas County2
- DeKalb County2
- Greene County2
- Hale County2
- Jackson County2
- Marengo County2
- Marshall County2
- Monroe County2
27 more counties
- Perry County2
- Sumter County2
- Wilcox County2
- Randolph County2
- Coffee County2
- Dale County2
- Geneva County2
- Henry County2
- Houston County2
- Autauga County1
- Barbour County1
- Bullock County1
- Chambers County1
- Elmore County1
- Lee County1
- Lowndes County1
- Macon County1
- Montgomery County1
- Pike County1
- Russell County1
- Tallapoosa County1
- Baldwin County1
- Butler County1
- Conecuh County1
- Covington County1
- Crenshaw County1
- Escambia 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.