Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Watches / 2012
Tornado Watches in Alabama, December 2012
6 tornado watches in December 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 December 2012. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 6
- Busiest day
- December 20, 20122 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 10, 8:51 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Barbour, Bullock, Chambers, Chilton, Choctaw and 18 more | 6 hr |
| Dec 20, 4:23 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bibb, Bullock, Butler and 34 more | 9 hr |
| Dec 20, 9:19 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston | 9 hr |
| Dec 25, 12:58 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Chambers, Choctaw and 19 more | 9 hr |
| Dec 25, 2:41 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Butler, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw, Dale and 4 more | 7 hr |
| Dec 25, 9:23 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Chambers, Coffee, Covington and 12 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Barbour County4
- Bullock County4
- Chambers County4
- Lee County4
- Macon County4
- Montgomery County4
- Pike County4
- Russell County4
- Tallapoosa County4
- Autauga County3
- Choctaw County3
- Clarke County3
- Dallas County3
- Elmore County3
- Greene County3
- Hale County3
- Lowndes County3
- Marengo County3
- Mobile County3
- Perry County3
- Sumter County3
- Washington County3
- Wilcox County3
- Baldwin County3
- Covington County3
- Crenshaw County3
- Escambia County3
- Coffee County3
- Dale County3
- Geneva County3
- Henry County3
- Houston County3
- Chilton County2
- Butler County2
- Conecuh County2
- Monroe County2
- Bibb County1
- Calhoun County1
- Clay County1
- Cleburne 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.