Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Watches / 2018
Tornado Watches in Alabama, April 2018
4 tornado watches in April 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 April 2018. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 4
- Busiest day
- April 14, 20182 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 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Baldwin County2
- Butler County2
- Clarke County2
- Conecuh County2
- Dallas County2
- Escambia County2
- Lowndes County2
- Mobile County2
- Monroe County2
- Washington County2
- Wilcox County2
- Covington County2
- Crenshaw County2
- Coffee County2
- Dale County2
- Geneva County2
- Henry County2
- Houston County2
- Autauga County1
- Bibb County1
- Blount County1
- Chilton County1
- Choctaw County1
- Fayette County1
- Greene County1
- Hale County1
- Jefferson County1
- Lamar County1
- Marengo County1
- Perry County1
- Pickens County1
- Shelby County1
- Sumter County1
- Tuscaloosa County1
- Walker County1
- Barbour County1
- Bullock County1
- Lee County1
- Macon County1
- Montgomery County1
2 more counties
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.