Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Watches / 2012
Tornado Watches in Alabama, August 2012
7 tornado watches in August 2012. 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 August 2012. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 7
- Busiest day
- August 30, 20123 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 28, 9:46 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Escambia, Mobile and 2 more | 9 hr |
| Aug 28, 6:47 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Escambia, Mobile and 2 more | 21 hr |
| Aug 29, 6:36 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Mobile, Washington | 9 hr |
| Aug 29, 3:53 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Mobile, Washington | 8 hr |
| Aug 29, 11:42 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Mobile, Washington | 8 hr |
| Aug 30, 7:13 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh and 15 more | 9 hr |
| Aug 30, 3:56 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Choctaw, Greene, Sumter, Washington | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Washington County7
- Mobile County6
- Baldwin County5
- Choctaw County4
- Clarke County3
- Conecuh County3
- Escambia County3
- Monroe County3
- Greene County2
- Sumter County2
- Autauga County1
- Butler County1
- Covington County1
- Crenshaw County1
- Dallas County1
- Hale County1
- Lowndes County1
- Marengo County1
- Montgomery County1
- Perry County1
- Wilcox 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. Rebuilt daily.