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Tornado Watches in Alabama, 2013
12 tornado watches in 2013. 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 2013. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 12
- Busiest month
- April4 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- January 30, 20133 tornado watches
Over time
By month
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 30, 1:46 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blount, Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Fayette, Franklin and 16 more | 8 hr |
| Jan 30, 5:15 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bibb, Bullock, Butler and 34 more | 7 hr |
| Jan 30, 12:19 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Chambers, Coffee, Conecuh and 16 more | 9 hr |
| Feb 10, 3:14 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke and 11 more | 8 hr |
| Feb 25, 3:54 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Escambia, Mobile and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 18, 3:16 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Barbour, Bullock, Chambers, Chilton, Clay and 10 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 24, 3:42 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Henry, Houston | 6 hr |
| Apr 11, 11:56 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Chilton, Colbert, Coosa and 31 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 11, 1:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington and 6 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 11, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee, Clay and 9 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 11, 7:24 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston | 8 hr |
| Dec 21, 8:16 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blount, Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Fayette, Franklin and 16 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Montgomery County6
- Barbour County5
- Bullock County5
- Conecuh County5
- Elmore County5
- Lowndes County5
- Pike County5
- Baldwin County4
- Butler County4
- Chambers County4
- Choctaw County4
- Clarke County4
- Crenshaw County4
- Escambia County4
- Lee County4
- Macon County4
- Mobile County4
- Monroe County4
- Randolph County4
- Russell County4
- Tallapoosa County4
- Washington County4
- Blount County3
- Colbert County3
- Cullman County3
- DeKalb County3
- Fayette County3
- Franklin County3
- Greene County3
- Jackson County3
- Jefferson County3
- Lamar County3
- Lauderdale County3
- Lawrence County3
- Limestone County3
- Madison County3
- Marion County3
- Marshall County3
- Morgan County3
- Pickens County3
27 more counties
- Sumter County3
- Tuscaloosa County3
- Walker County3
- Winston County3
- Autauga County3
- Chilton County3
- Clay County3
- Coosa County3
- Covington County3
- Dallas County3
- Marengo County3
- Wilcox County3
- Henry County3
- Houston County3
- Bibb County2
- Calhoun County2
- Cherokee County2
- Cleburne County2
- Etowah County2
- Hale County2
- Perry County2
- St. Clair County2
- Shelby County2
- Talladega County2
- Coffee County2
- Dale County2
- Geneva County2
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.