Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Watches / 2012
Tornado Watches in Alabama, January 2012
7 tornado watches in January 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 January 2012. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 7
- Busiest day
- January 21, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 20, 10:35 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Colbert, Fayette, Franklin, Lamar, Lauderdale, Lawrence and 6 more | 8 hr |
| Jan 21, 4:55 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee and 37 more | 7 hr |
| Jan 21, 11:28 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Chambers, Clay, Henry, Lee and 4 more | 8 hr |
| Jan 22, 10:59 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blount, Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Fayette, Franklin and 17 more | 7 hr |
| Jan 23, 2:44 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Butler and 37 more | 9 hr |
| Jan 26, 4:18 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Escambia, Mobile and 3 more | 7 hr |
| Jan 26, 9:55 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bibb, Bullock, Butler and 34 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Walker County4
- Chambers County4
- Clay County4
- Hale County4
- Lee County4
- Macon County4
- Randolph County4
- Russell County4
- Tallapoosa County4
- Fayette County3
- Franklin County3
- Lamar County3
- Lawrence County3
- Limestone County3
- Madison County3
- Marion County3
- Morgan County3
- Winston County3
- Autauga County3
- Bibb County3
- Blount County3
- Calhoun County3
- Chilton County3
- Cleburne County3
- Coosa County3
- Dallas County3
- Elmore County3
- Greene County3
- Jefferson County3
- Marengo County3
- Perry County3
- Pickens County3
- St. Clair County3
- Shelby County3
- Sumter County3
- Talladega County3
- Tuscaloosa County3
- Barbour County3
- Bullock County3
- Clarke County3
27 more counties
- Conecuh County3
- Monroe County3
- Wilcox County3
- Colbert County2
- Lauderdale County2
- Cherokee County2
- Cullman County2
- DeKalb County2
- Etowah County2
- Jackson County2
- Marshall County2
- Henry County2
- Butler County2
- Choctaw County2
- Crenshaw County2
- Lowndes County2
- Montgomery County2
- Pike County2
- Washington County2
- Baldwin County2
- Escambia County2
- Mobile County1
- Coffee County1
- Covington County1
- Dale County1
- Geneva County1
- Houston 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.