Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Watches / 2012
Tornado Watches in Alabama, February 2012
7 tornado watches in February 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 February 2012. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 7
- Busiest day
- February 18, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 18, 11:49 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Covington, Escambia, Mobile | 5 hr |
| Feb 18, 2:58 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston | 5 hr |
| Feb 18, 4:48 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Covington, Escambia, Mobile | 4 hr |
| Feb 18, 7:24 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Houston | 6 hr |
| Feb 24, 7:48 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Chambers and 25 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 24, 11:04 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston | 7 hr |
| Feb 29, 1:48 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blount, Cherokee, Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Etowah and 15 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Baldwin County3
- Covington County3
- Escambia County3
- Mobile County3
- Houston County3
- Coffee County2
- Dale County2
- Geneva County2
- Henry County2
- Autauga County1
- Barbour County1
- Bullock County1
- Butler County1
- Chambers County1
- Chilton County1
- Choctaw County1
- Clarke County1
- Clay County1
- Conecuh County1
- Coosa County1
- Crenshaw County1
- Dallas County1
- Elmore County1
- Lee County1
- Lowndes County1
- Macon County1
- Marengo County1
- Monroe County1
- Montgomery County1
- Perry County1
- Pike County1
- Randolph County1
- Russell County1
- Tallapoosa County1
- Washington County1
- Wilcox County1
- Blount County1
- Cherokee County1
- Colbert County1
- Cullman 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.