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Tornado Watches in Alabama, 2014

24 tornado watches in 2014. 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 2014. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
24
Busiest month
April9 tornado watches
Busiest day
April 29, 20144 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 11, 7:07 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCBarbour, Bullock, Chambers, Lee, Macon, Montgomery and 2 more7 hr
Feb 20, 6:05 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBibb, Choctaw, Clarke, Dallas, Greene, Hale and 7 more7 hr
Feb 20, 6:49 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAutauga, Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Chilton, Clay and 25 more6 hr
Mar 16, 4:51 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington and 6 more7 hr
Mar 16, 8:59 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarbour, Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston and 1 more8 hr
Apr 4, 2:52 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBlount, Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Fayette, Franklin and 17 more5 hr
Apr 6, 6:56 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington and 6 more8 hr
Apr 7, 1:16 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAutauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bibb, Bullock, Butler and 37 more7 hr
Apr 7, 7:46 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Coffee, Conecuh and 12 more7 hr
Apr 28, 12:39 PM CDTTornado Watch PDSSPCColbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Fayette, Franklin, Greene and 14 more8 hr
Apr 28, 7:59 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAutauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock and 51 more11 hr
Apr 29, 1:56 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCCoffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston9 hr
Apr 29, 12:46 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin, Mobile, Washington10 hr
Apr 29, 3:56 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBibb, Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Chilton, Colbert and 27 more4 hr
Jun 9, 5:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCColbert, Cullman, Fayette, Franklin, Lamar, Lauderdale and 6 more8 hr
Oct 13, 3:37 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAutauga, Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Chilton and 33 more8 hr
Oct 13, 7:23 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington and 6 more7 hr
Oct 13, 10:44 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarbour, Bullock, Chambers, Coffee, Coosa, Dale and 10 more6 hr
Oct 14, 3:27 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCHouston8 hr
Nov 16, 9:49 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCMobile, Washington7 hr
Nov 17, 1:32 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Clarke, Coffee and 11 more7 hr
Nov 23, 12:35 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBarbour, Bullock, Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry and 6 more6 hr
Dec 23, 9:30 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin, Choctaw, Mobile, Washington11 hr
Dec 23, 2:47 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAutauga, Barbour, Bibb, Bullock, Butler, Chambers and 34 more8 hr

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

27 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. April 29, 20144tornado watches
  2. October 14, 20143tornado watches
  3. February 21, 20142tornado watches
  4. March 16, 20142tornado watches
  5. April 7, 20142tornado watches
  6. November 17, 20142tornado watches
  7. December 23, 20142tornado watches
  8. January 11, 20141tornado watches
  9. April 4, 20141tornado watches
  10. April 6, 20141tornado watches
  11. April 28, 20141tornado watches
  12. June 9, 20141tornado watches

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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.