Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Watches / 2012
Tornado Watches in Alabama, March 2012
6 tornado watches in March 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 March 2012. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 6
- Busiest day
- March 2, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 9:25 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | DeKalb, Jackson, Lawrence, Limestone, Madison, Marshall and 1 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 2, 1:20 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blount, Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Fayette, Franklin and 14 more | 9 hr |
| Mar 2, 4:37 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock and 50 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 2, 10:56 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bibb, Bullock, Butler and 31 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 3, 6:35 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Geneva, Houston | 6 hr |
| Mar 22, 10:55 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Clarke, Mobile, Monroe, Washington, Wilcox | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Baldwin County3
- Clarke County3
- Mobile County3
- Monroe County3
- Washington County3
- Wilcox County3
- DeKalb County2
- Jackson County2
- Lawrence County2
- Limestone County2
- Madison County2
- Marshall County2
- Morgan County2
- Blount County2
- Fayette County2
- Jefferson County2
- Lamar County2
- Marion County2
- Pickens County2
- Tuscaloosa County2
- Walker County2
- Winston County2
- Autauga County2
- Barbour County2
- Bibb County2
- Bullock County2
- Butler County2
- Calhoun County2
- Chambers County2
- Chilton County2
- Choctaw County2
- Clay County2
- Cleburne County2
- Conecuh County2
- Coosa County2
- Crenshaw County2
- Dallas County2
- Elmore County2
- Escambia County2
- Geneva County2
27 more counties
- Hale County2
- Houston County2
- Lee County2
- Lowndes County2
- Macon County2
- Marengo County2
- Montgomery County2
- Perry County2
- Pike County2
- Randolph County2
- Russell County2
- St. Clair County2
- Shelby County2
- Talladega County2
- Tallapoosa County2
- Colbert County1
- Cullman County1
- Franklin County1
- Lauderdale County1
- Cherokee County1
- Coffee County1
- Covington County1
- Dale County1
- Etowah County1
- Greene County1
- Henry County1
- Sumter 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.