Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Watches / 2009
Tornado Watches in Alabama, May 2009
5 tornado watches in May 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 May 2009. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- May 4, 20092 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, 2:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Clay, Cleburne, Cullman and 21 more | 6 hr |
| May 2, 8:43 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bibb, Blount, Chilton, Fayette, Greene, Hale and 9 more | 6 hr |
| May 4, 2:34 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Butler, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw and 5 more | 5 hr |
| May 4, 7:33 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Butler, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw and 6 more | 6 hr |
| May 6, 9:27 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Calhoun and 31 more | 9 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Blount County3
- Jefferson County3
- St. Clair County3
- Shelby County3
- Tuscaloosa County3
- Walker County3
- Calhoun County2
- Cherokee County2
- Clay County2
- Cleburne County2
- DeKalb County2
- Etowah County2
- Fayette County2
- Jackson County2
- Lamar County2
- Marshall County2
- Pickens County2
- Randolph County2
- Talladega County2
- Bibb County2
- Chilton County2
- Greene County2
- Hale County2
- Perry County2
- Sumter County2
- Baldwin County2
- Butler County2
- Conecuh County2
- Covington County2
- Crenshaw County2
- Escambia County2
- Mobile County2
- Cullman County1
- Franklin County1
- Lawrence County1
- Limestone County1
- Madison County1
- Marion County1
- Morgan County1
- Winston County1
24 more counties
- Clarke County1
- Monroe County1
- Washington County1
- Wilcox County1
- Coffee County1
- Dale County1
- Geneva County1
- Henry County1
- Houston County1
- Autauga County1
- Barbour County1
- Bullock County1
- Chambers County1
- Coosa County1
- Dallas County1
- Elmore County1
- Lee County1
- Lowndes County1
- Macon County1
- Marengo County1
- Montgomery County1
- Pike County1
- Russell County1
- Tallapoosa County1
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.