Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Watches / 2011

Tornado Watches in Alabama, April 2011

17 tornado watches in April 2011. 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 2011. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
17
Busiest day
April 27, 20115 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
Apr 4, 1:03 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBlount, Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Fayette, Franklin and 16 more7 hr
Apr 4, 4:55 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAutauga, Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee and 28 more6 hr
Apr 4, 5:28 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington and 6 more7 hr
Apr 4, 9:28 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarbour, Bullock, Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry and 3 more6 hr
Apr 11, 4:05 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBibb, Blount, Chilton, Choctaw, Clarke, Dallas and 16 more6 hr
Apr 11, 5:11 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCColbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Franklin, Jackson, Lauderdale and 5 more7 hr
Apr 11, 7:08 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAutauga, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Calhoun, Chambers and 19 more7 hr
Apr 15, 7:32 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBlount, Choctaw, Clarke, Colbert, Cullman, Fayette and 20 more7 hr
Apr 15, 11:21 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAutauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock and 44 more9 hr
Apr 15, 7:48 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAutauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bibb, Bullock, Butler and 34 more6 hr
Apr 16, 2:05 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarbour, Bullock, Coffee, Covington, Dale, Geneva and 5 more7 hr
Apr 26, 9:33 PM CDTTornado Watch PDSSPCColbert, Franklin, Lauderdale7 hr
Apr 27, 2:26 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBibb, Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Chilton, Clay and 29 more6 hr
Apr 27, 8:08 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCColbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Fayette, Franklin, Jackson and 10 more6 hr
Apr 27, 1:42 PM CDTTornado Watch PDSSPCAutauga, Bibb, Blount, Butler, Calhoun, Cherokee and 41 more8 hr
Apr 27, 5:52 PM CDTTornado Watch PDSSPCBarbour, Bullock, Chambers, Elmore, Lee, Macon and 5 more9 hr
Apr 27, 9:42 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAutauga, Bibb, Butler, Calhoun, Cherokee, Chilton and 19 more4 hr

By county

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

27 more counties

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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.