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Tornado Watches in Alabama, 2015
15 tornado watches in 2015. 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 2015. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 15
- Busiest month
- December7 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- November 18, 20153 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 3, 3:18 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Chilton, Dallas, Fayette and 15 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 19, 6:57 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Chambers, Clay, Coffee and 16 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 25, 12:50 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dallas, Fayette, Greene, Hale, Lamar, Marengo and 4 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 25, 5:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Clarke and 18 more | 7 hr |
| Oct 31, 4:57 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Escambia, Mobile and 3 more | 4 hr |
| Nov 18, 2:49 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Choctaw, Clarke, Greene, Hale, Marengo and 4 more | 6 hr |
| Nov 18, 8:25 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Clarke and 22 more | 8 hr |
| Nov 18, 2:16 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston | 6 hr |
| Dec 23, 2:17 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Chilton, Choctaw, Clarke, Dallas and 11 more | 6 hr |
| Dec 23, 4:49 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Colbert, Cullman, Franklin, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Dec 23, 8:20 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bibb, Fayette, Greene, Hale, Jefferson, Lamar and 7 more | 8 hr |
| Dec 23, 10:33 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cullman, DeKalb, Jackson, Lawrence, Limestone, Madison and 2 more | 5 hr |
| Dec 24, 4:09 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry and 5 more | 7 hr |
| Dec 28, 6:41 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Bibb, Butler, Chilton, Choctaw and 27 more | 5 hr |
| Dec 28, 11:04 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Butler, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw, Dale and 4 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Greene County6
- Hale County6
- Sumter County6
- Coffee County6
- Conecuh County6
- Dale County6
- Escambia County6
- Geneva County6
- Henry County6
- Houston County6
- Clarke County6
- Autauga County5
- Dallas County5
- Lowndes County5
- Marengo County5
- Perry County5
- Pickens County5
- Butler County5
- Covington County5
- Crenshaw County5
- Elmore County5
- Montgomery County5
- Baldwin County5
- Mobile County5
- Monroe County5
- Wilcox County5
- Washington County5
- Bibb County4
- Fayette County4
- Lamar County4
- Tuscaloosa County4
- Barbour County4
- Bullock County4
- Macon County4
- Pike County4
- Russell County4
- Choctaw County4
- Chilton County3
- Jefferson County3
- Marion County3
21 more counties
- Shelby County3
- Walker County3
- Winston County3
- Lee County3
- Cullman County2
- Lawrence County2
- Limestone County2
- Madison County2
- Morgan County2
- Blount County1
- St. Clair County1
- Chambers County1
- Clay County1
- Randolph County1
- Tallapoosa County1
- Colbert County1
- Franklin County1
- Lauderdale County1
- DeKalb County1
- Jackson County1
- Marshall County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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.