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Tornado Watches in Alabama, 2016

25 tornado watches in 2016. 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 2016. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
25
Busiest month
February8 tornado watches
Busiest day
November 30, 20166 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 21, 6:53 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAutauga, Baldwin, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Coffee and 21 more10 hr
Feb 2, 1:18 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin, Choctaw, Clarke, Mobile, Monroe, Washington and 1 more6 hr
Feb 2, 3:10 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBibb, Blount, Chilton, Colbert, Cullman, Dallas and 23 more7 hr
Feb 2, 6:52 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin, Choctaw, Clarke, Mobile, Monroe, Washington and 1 more8 hr
Feb 2, 9:59 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAutauga, Bibb, Chilton, Clay, Coosa, Dallas and 14 more6 hr
Feb 15, 12:02 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAutauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Choctaw and 27 more9 hr
Feb 23, 2:13 PM CSTTornado Watch PDSSPCBaldwin, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington and 6 more8 hr
Feb 23, 5:53 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAutauga, Barbour, Bibb, Bullock, Chambers, Chilton and 21 more6 hr
Feb 23, 8:08 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCButler, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw, Dale and 5 more9 hr
Mar 24, 12:18 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin, Butler, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw and 7 more7 hr
Mar 31, 8:43 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington, Escambia, Mobile and 2 more5 hr
Mar 31, 5:58 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAutauga, Bibb, Blount, Chilton, Choctaw, Clarke and 33 more7 hr
Mar 31, 8:14 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarbour, Bullock, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee, Clay and 8 more18 hr
Apr 1, 6:26 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCCoffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston12 hr
Nov 29, 3:48 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCColbert, Franklin, Lauderdale7 hr
Nov 29, 5:37 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCFayette, Greene, Hale, Lamar, Marion, Pickens and 4 more3 hr
Nov 29, 6:47 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCCullman, DeKalb, Jackson, Lawrence, Limestone, Madison and 2 more8 hr
Nov 29, 8:50 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBibb, Blount, Fayette, Greene, Hale, Jefferson and 7 more8 hr
Nov 29, 10:28 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCColbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Franklin, Jackson, Lauderdale and 5 more5 hr
Nov 30, 2:54 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCBibb, Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Chilton, Cleburne and 22 more7 hr
Nov 30, 4:57 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCChoctaw, Clarke, Mobile, Washington7 hr
Nov 30, 11:06 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Chambers, Coffee and 17 more6 hr
Dec 5, 1:10 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin, Geneva, Houston7 hr
Dec 5, 8:00 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCGeneva, Houston8 hr
Dec 17, 8:58 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCColbert, Franklin, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone6 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. November 30, 20166tornado watches
  2. February 2, 20162tornado watches
  3. February 3, 20162tornado watches
  4. February 23, 20162tornado watches
  5. March 31, 20162tornado watches
  6. April 1, 20162tornado watches
  7. November 29, 20162tornado watches
  8. January 22, 20161tornado watches
  9. February 15, 20161tornado watches
  10. February 24, 20161tornado watches
  11. March 24, 20161tornado watches
  12. December 5, 20161tornado watches

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.