Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Watches / 2016
Tornado Watches in Alabama, February 2016
8 tornado watches in February 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 February 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 8
- Busiest day
- February 2, 20162 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 2, 1:18 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Choctaw, Clarke, Mobile, Monroe, Washington and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 2, 3:10 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bibb, Blount, Chilton, Colbert, Cullman, Dallas and 23 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 2, 6:52 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Choctaw, Clarke, Mobile, Monroe, Washington and 1 more | 8 hr |
| Feb 2, 9:59 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Chilton, Clay, Coosa, Dallas and 14 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 15, 12:02 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Choctaw and 27 more | 9 hr |
| Feb 23, 2:13 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington and 6 more | 8 hr |
| Feb 23, 5:53 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Bullock, Chambers, Chilton and 21 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 23, 8:08 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Butler, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw, Dale and 5 more | 9 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Monroe County5
- Baldwin County4
- Choctaw County4
- Clarke County4
- Mobile County4
- Washington County4
- Wilcox County4
- Dallas County4
- Greene County4
- Hale County4
- Marengo County4
- Perry County4
- Sumter County4
- Bibb County3
- Chilton County3
- Pickens County3
- Shelby County3
- Tuscaloosa County3
- Autauga County3
- Elmore County3
- Lowndes County3
- Montgomery County3
- Butler County3
- Conecuh County3
- Covington County3
- Crenshaw County3
- Escambia County3
- Jefferson County2
- Clay County2
- Coosa County2
- Talladega County2
- Tallapoosa County2
- Barbour County2
- Bullock County2
- Coffee County2
- Dale County2
- Geneva County2
- Henry County2
- Houston County2
- Lee County2
22 more counties
- Macon County2
- Pike County2
- Russell County2
- Blount County1
- Colbert County1
- Cullman County1
- DeKalb County1
- Fayette County1
- Franklin County1
- Jackson County1
- Lamar County1
- Lauderdale County1
- Lawrence County1
- Limestone County1
- Madison County1
- Marion County1
- Marshall County1
- Morgan County1
- Walker County1
- Winston County1
- Chambers County1
- Randolph County1
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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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.