Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in Alabama, 2018
16 tornado watches in 2018. 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 2018. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 16
- Busiest month
- April4 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- April 14, 20182 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 3:28 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Chilton, Clay and 30 more | 9 hr |
| Apr 14, 10:36 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Bibb, Blount, Butler, Chilton and 22 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 14, 6:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Butler, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw and 7 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 14, 10:58 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston | 8 hr |
| Apr 22, 2:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Coffee, Covington, Crenshaw, Dale and 8 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 23, 5:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blount, Colbert, Cullman, Fayette, Franklin, Lamar and 9 more | 4 hr |
| Jul 20, 6:22 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Colbert, DeKalb, Franklin, Jackson, Lauderdale, Lawrence and 4 more | 8 hr |
| Sep 4, 6:51 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Mobile | 9 hr |
| Nov 1, 5:27 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Bibb, Butler, Chilton, Choctaw and 32 more | 7 hr |
| Nov 5, 10:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blount, Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Fayette, Franklin and 16 more | 7 hr |
| Nov 12, 4:34 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Mobile | 7 hr |
| Nov 12, 11:46 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Coffee, Covington, Dale, Escambia, Geneva and 3 more | 7 hr |
| Dec 1, 11:16 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Coffee, Covington, Dale, Escambia, Geneva, Henry and 1 more | 7 hr |
| Dec 1, 5:53 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Coffee, Covington, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston | 9 hr |
| Dec 2, 2:48 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston | 7 hr |
| Dec 31, 11:47 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Colbert, Cullman, Fayette, Franklin, Greene, Lamar and 11 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Colbert County6
- Fayette County6
- Franklin County6
- Lamar County6
- Lauderdale County6
- Lawrence County6
- Walker County6
- Baldwin County6
- Mobile County6
- Covington County6
- Coffee County6
- Dale County6
- Geneva County6
- Henry County6
- Houston County6
- Greene County5
- Limestone County5
- Madison County5
- Marion County5
- Morgan County5
- Pickens County5
- Sumter County5
- Tuscaloosa County5
- Winston County5
- Escambia County5
- Blount County4
- Cullman County4
- Jefferson County4
- Marshall County4
- Bibb County3
- Chilton County3
- DeKalb County3
- Hale County3
- Jackson County3
- Perry County3
- Shelby County3
- Butler County3
- Clarke County3
- Conecuh County3
- Dallas County3
25 more counties
- Lowndes County3
- Monroe County3
- Washington County3
- Wilcox County3
- Crenshaw County3
- Coosa County2
- Autauga County2
- Choctaw County2
- Marengo County2
- Montgomery County2
- Calhoun County1
- Cherokee County1
- Clay County1
- Cleburne County1
- Etowah County1
- Randolph County1
- St. Clair County1
- Talladega County1
- Barbour County1
- Bullock County1
- Lee County1
- Macon County1
- Pike County1
- Russell County1
- Elmore County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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.