Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Watches / 2016
Tornado Watches in Alabama, March 2016
3 tornado watches in March 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 March 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 3
- Busiest day
- March 31, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 24, 12:18 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Butler, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw and 7 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 31, 8:43 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington, Escambia, Mobile and 2 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 31, 5:58 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Chilton, Choctaw, Clarke and 33 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Baldwin County2
- Conecuh County2
- Covington County2
- Escambia County2
- Mobile County2
- Monroe County2
- Clarke County2
- Butler County1
- Coffee County1
- Crenshaw County1
- Dale County1
- Geneva County1
- Henry County1
- Houston County1
- Washington County1
- Autauga County1
- Bibb County1
- Blount County1
- Chilton County1
- Choctaw County1
- Colbert County1
- Coosa County1
- Cullman County1
- Dallas County1
- DeKalb County1
- Elmore County1
- Fayette County1
- Franklin County1
- Greene County1
- Hale County1
- Jackson County1
- Jefferson County1
- Lamar County1
- Lauderdale County1
- Lawrence County1
- Limestone County1
- Lowndes County1
- Madison County1
- Marengo County1
- Marion County1
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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.