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Tornado Watches in Alabama, 2019

24 tornado watches in 2019. 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 2019. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
24
Busiest month
April8 tornado watches
Busiest day
April 14, 20195 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 19, 9:43 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCAutauga, Baldwin, Bibb, Butler, Chilton, Choctaw and 25 more7 hr
Jan 19, 3:21 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBarbour, Bullock, Chambers, Coffee, Dale, Geneva and 7 more6 hr
Feb 23, 3:01 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBibb, Blount, Chilton, Colbert, Cullman, Etowah and 21 more6 hr
Mar 3, 11:03 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCAutauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Chambers and 25 more7 hr
Mar 3, 11:24 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCCoffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston10 hr
Mar 9, 2:16 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBlount, Colbert, Cullman, Fayette, Franklin, Greene and 13 more7 hr
Mar 14, 12:11 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBibb, Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Cleburne, Colbert and 25 more7 hr
Mar 14, 6:41 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAutauga, Bibb, Calhoun, Cherokee, Chilton, Clay and 13 more5 hr
Apr 13, 7:11 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBibb, Blount, Colbert, Cullman, Fayette, Franklin and 19 more11 hr
Apr 13, 9:33 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin, Choctaw, Clarke, Mobile, Monroe, Washington and 1 more8 hr
Apr 14, 1:04 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAutauga, Barbour, Bullock, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee and 19 more9 hr
Apr 14, 2:45 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCButler, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw, Dale and 4 more7 hr
Apr 14, 9:40 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCHenry, Houston6 hr
Apr 18, 3:49 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAutauga, Baldwin, Bibb, Blount, Butler, Chilton and 31 more7 hr
Apr 19, 12:33 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarbour, Bullock, Butler, Chambers, Coffee, Conecuh and 13 more9 hr
Apr 25, 12:24 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin, Escambia, Mobile, Washington8 hr
May 9, 11:46 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCChoctaw, Mobile, Washington6 hr
Jun 6, 9:40 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin, Mobile6 hr
Oct 25, 9:49 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin, Choctaw, Clarke, Mobile, Washington6 hr
Oct 25, 3:43 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin, Choctaw, Clarke, Mobile, Washington7 hr
Dec 16, 3:47 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBibb, Blount, Chilton, Choctaw, Clarke, Colbert and 27 more10 hr
Dec 16, 9:47 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAutauga, Bibb, Blount, Butler, Calhoun, Chambers and 24 more6 hr
Dec 17, 6:54 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCHenry, Houston7 hr
Dec 29, 2:56 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCColbert, Cullman, Fayette, Franklin, Greene, Lamar and 10 more6 hr

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

27 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. April 14, 20195tornado watches
  2. January 19, 20192tornado watches
  3. March 3, 20192tornado watches
  4. March 14, 20192tornado watches
  5. October 25, 20192tornado watches
  6. December 17, 20192tornado watches
  7. February 23, 20191tornado watches
  8. March 9, 20191tornado watches
  9. April 18, 20191tornado watches
  10. April 19, 20191tornado watches
  11. April 25, 20191tornado watches
  12. May 9, 20191tornado watches

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.