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Tornado Watches in Alabama, April 2017
8 tornado watches in April 2017. 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 April 2017. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 8
- Busiest day
- April 5, 20173 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 1:48 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Choctaw, Clarke, Mobile, Washington | 10 hr |
| Apr 3, 7:06 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Butler, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw, Dale and 6 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 5, 6:54 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bibb, Bullock, Butler and 44 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 5, 11:54 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston | 10 hr |
| Apr 5, 1:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Calhoun and 36 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 5, 8:58 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Chambers, Lee, Macon, Pike and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Apr 30, 10:36 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Bibb, Blount, Chilton, Choctaw and 27 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 30, 1:36 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee, Clay, Cleburne, Coosa and 10 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Chambers County4
- Baldwin County3
- Choctaw County3
- Clarke County3
- Mobile County3
- Washington County3
- Dale County3
- Geneva County3
- Henry County3
- Houston County3
- Monroe County3
- Wilcox County3
- Autauga County3
- Barbour County3
- Bibb County3
- Bullock County3
- Calhoun County3
- Cherokee County3
- Chilton County3
- Clay County3
- Cleburne County3
- Coosa County3
- Elmore County3
- Etowah County3
- Jefferson County3
- Lee County3
- Macon County3
- Pike County3
- Randolph County3
- Russell County3
- St. Clair County3
- Shelby County3
- Talladega County3
- Tallapoosa County3
- Tuscaloosa County3
- Butler County2
- Coffee County2
- Conecuh County2
- Covington County2
- Crenshaw County2
27 more counties
- Escambia County2
- Dallas County2
- Greene County2
- Hale County2
- Lowndes County2
- Marengo County2
- Montgomery County2
- Perry County2
- Pickens County2
- Sumter County2
- Blount County2
- Colbert County2
- Cullman County2
- DeKalb County2
- Fayette County2
- Franklin County2
- Jackson County2
- Lauderdale County2
- Lawrence County2
- Limestone County2
- Madison County2
- Marion County2
- Marshall County2
- Morgan County2
- Walker County2
- Winston County2
- Lamar 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.