Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Watches / 2018
Tornado Watches in Alabama, December 2018
4 tornado watches in December 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 December 2018. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 4
- Busiest day
- December 1, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
- Coffee County3
- Dale County3
- Geneva County3
- Henry County3
- Houston County3
- Covington County2
- Escambia County1
- Colbert County1
- Cullman County1
- Fayette County1
- Franklin County1
- Greene County1
- Lamar County1
- Lauderdale County1
- Lawrence County1
- Limestone County1
- Madison County1
- Marion County1
- Morgan County1
- Pickens County1
- Sumter 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.