Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Watches / 2020
Tornado Watches in Alabama, April 2020
7 tornado watches in April 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 April 2020. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 7
- Busiest day
- April 12, 20202 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 12, 3:20 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Chilton, Clay and 30 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 12, 4:38 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Bibb, Calhoun, Chilton, Choctaw and 22 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 12, 10:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Calhoun and 26 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 19, 3:56 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke and 20 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 19, 9:39 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Butler, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw and 5 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 19, 10:13 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barbour, Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston and 1 more | 10 hr |
| Apr 23, 4:05 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke and 14 more | 11 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Monroe County5
- Baldwin County4
- Clarke County4
- Mobile County4
- Washington County4
- Wilcox County4
- Barbour County4
- Butler County4
- Conecuh County4
- Covington County4
- Crenshaw County4
- Escambia County4
- Pike County4
- Calhoun County3
- Clay County3
- Cleburne County3
- Coosa County3
- Greene County3
- Hale County3
- Marengo County3
- Perry County3
- Sumter County3
- Talladega County3
- Autauga County3
- Choctaw County3
- Elmore County3
- Lowndes County3
- Montgomery County3
- Bullock County3
- Coffee County3
- Dale County3
- Geneva County3
- Henry County3
- Houston County3
- Bibb County2
- Cherokee County2
- Chilton County2
- Jefferson County2
- St. Clair County2
- Shelby County2
27 more counties
- Tuscaloosa County2
- Dallas County2
- Lee County2
- Macon County2
- Russell County2
- Blount County1
- Colbert County1
- Cullman County1
- DeKalb County1
- Etowah County1
- Fayette County1
- Franklin County1
- Jackson County1
- Lamar County1
- Lauderdale County1
- Lawrence County1
- Limestone County1
- Madison County1
- Marion County1
- Marshall County1
- Morgan County1
- Pickens County1
- Walker County1
- Winston County1
- Chambers County1
- Randolph County1
- Tallapoosa County1
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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.