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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 4, 1:03 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blount, Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Fayette, Franklin and 16 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 4, 4:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee and 28 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 4, 5:28 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington and 6 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 4, 9:28 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 11, 4:05 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bibb, Blount, Chilton, Choctaw, Clarke, Dallas and 16 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 11, 5:11 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Franklin, Jackson, Lauderdale and 5 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 11, 7:08 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Calhoun, Chambers and 19 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 15, 7:32 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blount, Choctaw, Clarke, Colbert, Cullman, Fayette and 20 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 15, 11:21 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock and 44 more | 9 hr |
| Apr 15, 7:48 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bibb, Bullock, Butler and 34 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 16, 2:05 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Coffee, Covington, Dale, Geneva and 5 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 26, 9:33 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Colbert, Franklin, Lauderdale | 7 hr |
| Apr 27, 2:26 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Chilton, Clay and 29 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 27, 8:08 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Fayette, Franklin, Jackson and 10 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 27, 1:42 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Butler, Calhoun, Cherokee and 41 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 27, 5:52 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Chambers, Elmore, Lee, Macon and 5 more | 9 hr |
| Apr 27, 9:42 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Butler, Calhoun, Cherokee, Chilton and 19 more | 4 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Fayette County8
- Lamar County8
- Walker County8
- Winston County8
- Hale County8
- Blount County7
- Colbert County7
- Franklin County7
- Greene County7
- Jefferson County7
- Lauderdale County7
- Marion County7
- Pickens County7
- Sumter County7
- Tuscaloosa County7
- Bibb County7
- Chilton County7
- Clay County7
- Coosa County7
- Marengo County7
- Perry County7
- Shelby County7
- Talladega County7
- Choctaw County7
- Clarke County7
- Washington County7
- Cullman County6
- Lawrence County6
- Limestone County6
- Madison County6
- Marshall County6
- Morgan County6
- Autauga County6
- Calhoun County6
- Cherokee County6
- Cleburne County6
- Dallas County6
- Etowah County6
- Lee County6
- Lowndes County6
27 more counties
- St. Clair County6
- Butler County6
- Conecuh County6
- Crenshaw County6
- Monroe County6
- Wilcox County6
- Barbour County6
- Bullock County6
- Pike County6
- Russell County6
- DeKalb County5
- Jackson County5
- Chambers County5
- Elmore County5
- Macon County5
- Montgomery County5
- Randolph County5
- Tallapoosa County5
- Mobile County4
- Baldwin County3
- Covington County3
- Escambia County3
- Coffee County3
- Dale County3
- Geneva County3
- Henry County3
- Houston County3
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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.