Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Watches / 2009

Tornado Watches in Alabama, December 2009

7 tornado watches in December 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 December 2009. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
7
Busiest day
December 9, 20093 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 2, 3:11 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington, Dale, Escambia and 4 more6 hr
Dec 8, 5:48 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCColbert, Franklin, Lauderdale, Lawrence6 hr
Dec 8, 6:12 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBibb, Blount, Choctaw, Clarke, Dallas, Fayette and 15 more8 hr
Dec 8, 11:09 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAutauga, Bullock, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee, Chilton and 17 more5 hr
Dec 9, 3:32 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCCoffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston5 hr
Dec 24, 10:37 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin, Choctaw, Clarke, Mobile, Washington7 hr
Dec 24, 5:37 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin, Clarke, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington, Dale and 5 more9 hr

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

19 more counties

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.