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Tornado Watches in Alabama, 2020

35 tornado watches in 2020. 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 2020. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
35
Busiest month
March7 tornado watches
Busiest day
January 11, 20204 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 11, 6:57 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCColbert, Cullman, Fayette, Franklin, Lamar, Lauderdale and 7 more7 hr
Jan 11, 7:57 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCAutauga, Baldwin, Bibb, Blount, Butler, Chilton and 22 more9 hr
Jan 11, 12:42 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBarbour, Bullock, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee, Clay and 15 more7 hr
Jan 11, 2:44 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCCoffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston5 hr
Feb 5, 4:25 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBibb, Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Chilton, Colbert and 28 more5 hr
Feb 5, 5:50 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCChoctaw, Clarke, Washington6 hr
Feb 5, 11:48 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAutauga, Baldwin, Bibb, Calhoun, Cherokee, Chilton and 18 more8 hr
Feb 6, 3:27 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCAutauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Chambers and 20 more9 hr
Feb 6, 11:17 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCCoffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston8 hr
Mar 3, 5:12 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCAutauga, Bibb, Bullock, Chambers, Chilton, Clay and 15 more5 hr
Mar 4, 1:53 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington and 6 more8 hr
Mar 4, 9:16 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCCoffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston6 hr
Mar 24, 3:06 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCColbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Franklin, Jackson, Lamar and 8 more7 hr
Mar 24, 7:44 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBlount, Cherokee, Etowah, Fayette, Walker3 hr
Mar 28, 9:58 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBlount, Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Fayette, Franklin and 16 more7 hr
Mar 31, 8:51 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAutauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Chambers and 26 more6 hr
Apr 12, 3:20 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBibb, Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Chilton, Clay and 30 more8 hr
Apr 12, 4:38 PM CDTTornado Watch PDSSPCAutauga, Baldwin, Bibb, Calhoun, Chilton, Choctaw and 22 more7 hr
Apr 12, 10:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAutauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Calhoun and 26 more8 hr
Apr 19, 3:56 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAutauga, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke and 20 more6 hr
Apr 19, 9:39 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin, Butler, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw and 5 more5 hr
Apr 19, 10:13 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarbour, Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston and 1 more10 hr
Apr 23, 4:05 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke and 14 more11 hr
Jun 7, 9:03 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin, Mobile8 hr
Aug 24, 3:39 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCHouston8 hr
Aug 28, 10:31 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCColbert, Franklin, Lamar, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone and 2 more5 hr
Aug 28, 3:46 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCColbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Fayette, Franklin, Jackson and 10 more4 hr
Sep 15, 6:45 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin, Mobile11 hr
Sep 15, 5:48 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin12 hr
Sep 16, 5:55 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCCoffee, Conecuh, Covington, Dale, Escambia, Geneva and 2 more14 hr
Oct 10, 4:00 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington and 6 more10 hr
Oct 10, 12:47 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarbour, Bullock, Calhoun, Chambers, Clay, Cleburne and 15 more7 hr
Oct 28, 1:03 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington and 6 more11 hr
Oct 28, 11:34 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarbour, Bullock, Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry and 5 more7 hr
Dec 24, 1:42 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin, Butler, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw and 4 more7 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. January 11, 20204tornado watches
  2. February 6, 20203tornado watches
  3. February 5, 20202tornado watches
  4. March 4, 20202tornado watches
  5. April 12, 20202tornado watches
  6. April 20, 20202tornado watches
  7. August 28, 20202tornado watches
  8. September 15, 20202tornado watches
  9. October 10, 20202tornado watches
  10. March 3, 20201tornado watches
  11. March 24, 20201tornado watches
  12. March 25, 20201tornado watches

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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.