Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Watches / 2009
Tornado Watches in Alabama, February 2009
8 tornado watches in February 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 February 2009. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 8
- Busiest day
- February 28, 20094 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 11, 11:10 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee, Chilton and 19 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 18, 12:42 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Chilton and 37 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 18, 2:32 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Chambers, Coffee, Dale, Geneva and 6 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 27, 12:38 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Bullock, Chilton, Choctaw and 20 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 27, 7:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Bullock, Butler, Chambers and 28 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 28, 2:52 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Bullock, Chambers, Chilton and 15 more | 9 hr |
| Feb 28, 10:39 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Coffee, Covington, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston | 7 hr |
| Feb 28, 5:43 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston | 8 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Bibb County5
- Chilton County5
- Chambers County4
- Coosa County4
- Jefferson County4
- Shelby County4
- Tallapoosa County4
- Tuscaloosa County4
- Autauga County4
- Dallas County4
- Elmore County4
- Greene County4
- Hale County4
- Lowndes County4
- Marengo County4
- Montgomery County4
- Perry County4
- Sumter County4
- Barbour County4
- Bullock County4
- Macon County4
- Pike County4
- Russell County4
- Clay County3
- Talladega County3
- Walker County3
- Pickens County3
- Coffee County3
- Dale County3
- Geneva County3
- Henry County3
- Houston County3
- Lee County3
- Blount County2
- Calhoun County2
- Cherokee County2
- Cleburne County2
- Cullman County2
- DeKalb County2
- Etowah County2
23 more counties
- Jackson County2
- Madison County2
- Marshall County2
- Morgan County2
- Randolph County2
- St. Clair County2
- Winston County2
- Fayette County2
- Lamar County2
- Choctaw County2
- Wilcox County2
- Colbert County1
- Franklin County1
- Lauderdale County1
- Lawrence County1
- Limestone County1
- Marion County1
- Clarke County1
- Monroe County1
- Washington County1
- Butler County1
- Crenshaw County1
- Covington 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.