Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Watches / 2009
Tornado Watches in Alabama, April 2009
15 tornado watches in April 2009. 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 2009. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 15
- Busiest day
- April 13, 20095 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 2, 6:29 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke and 19 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 2, 1:33 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Bibb, Blount, Butler, Chilton and 36 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 2, 2:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston | 7 hr |
| Apr 2, 6:02 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee and 38 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 5, 5:05 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Chambers, Chilton and 21 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 10, 1:43 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blount, Colbert, Cullman, Fayette, Franklin, Greene and 12 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 10, 11:23 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Cleburne, Colbert and 25 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 10, 2:39 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Barbour, Bullock, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee and 19 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 12, 8:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Choctaw, Clarke, Greene, Hale, Marengo, Mobile and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 12, 11:01 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Butler, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw and 8 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 13, 2:33 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Clarke, Coffee and 14 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 13, 9:12 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Coffee, Covington, Dale, Escambia, Geneva, Henry and 1 more | 9 hr |
| Apr 13, 12:58 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Franklin, Jackson, Lauderdale and 5 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 19, 2:19 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock and 43 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 19, 8:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Bullock, Calhoun, Chambers and 22 more | 4 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Lowndes County8
- Escambia County7
- Montgomery County7
- Autauga County7
- Dallas County7
- Jefferson County7
- Barbour County6
- Bullock County6
- Butler County6
- Conecuh County6
- Covington County6
- Macon County6
- Monroe County6
- Pike County6
- Russell County6
- Chilton County6
- Greene County6
- St. Clair County6
- Shelby County6
- Sumter County6
- Elmore County6
- Baldwin County5
- Clarke County5
- Coffee County5
- Crenshaw County5
- Dale County5
- Geneva County5
- Henry County5
- Houston County5
- Lee County5
- Mobile County5
- Washington County5
- Wilcox County5
- Bibb County5
- Blount County5
- Colbert County5
- Cullman County5
- Fayette County5
- Franklin County5
- Hale County5
27 more counties
- Lamar County5
- Lauderdale County5
- Lawrence County5
- Limestone County5
- Marengo County5
- Marion County5
- Morgan County5
- Perry County5
- Pickens County5
- Tuscaloosa County5
- Walker County5
- Winston County5
- Calhoun County5
- Chambers County5
- Cherokee County5
- Cleburne County5
- Coosa County5
- Etowah County5
- Talladega County5
- Tallapoosa County5
- Choctaw County4
- Madison County4
- Marshall County4
- Clay County4
- Randolph County4
- DeKalb County3
- Jackson County3
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.