Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Watches / 2017
Tornado Watches in Alabama, August 2017
2 tornado watches in August 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 August 2017. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 2
- Busiest day
- August 30, 20171 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 30, 10:22 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Choctaw, Clarke, Mobile, Washington | 8 hr |
| Aug 31, 11:13 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bibb, Blount, Chilton, Colbert, Coosa, Cullman and 22 more | 11 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Baldwin County1
- Choctaw County1
- Clarke County1
- Mobile County1
- Washington County1
- Bibb County1
- Blount County1
- Chilton County1
- Colbert County1
- Coosa County1
- Cullman County1
- Dallas County1
- Fayette County1
- Franklin County1
- Greene County1
- Hale County1
- Jefferson County1
- Lamar County1
- Lauderdale County1
- Lawrence County1
- Limestone County1
- Marengo County1
- Marion County1
- Morgan County1
- Perry County1
- Pickens County1
- St. Clair County1
- Shelby County1
- Sumter County1
- Talladega County1
- Tuscaloosa County1
- Walker County1
- Winston 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. Rebuilt daily.