Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Watches / 2020
Tornado Watches in Alabama, February 2020
5 tornado watches in February 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 February 2020. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- February 6, 20203 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 5, 4:25 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Chilton, Colbert and 28 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 5, 5:50 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Choctaw, Clarke, Washington | 6 hr |
| Feb 5, 11:48 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Bibb, Calhoun, Cherokee, Chilton and 18 more | 8 hr |
| Feb 6, 3:27 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Chambers and 20 more | 9 hr |
| Feb 6, 11:17 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston | 8 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Bibb County2
- Calhoun County2
- Cherokee County2
- Chilton County2
- Dallas County2
- Etowah County2
- Greene County2
- Hale County2
- Marengo County2
- Perry County2
- St. Clair County2
- Shelby County2
- Sumter County2
- Talladega County2
- Choctaw County2
- Clarke County2
- Washington County2
- Autauga County2
- Baldwin County2
- Lowndes County2
- Coffee County2
- Dale County2
- Geneva County2
- Henry County2
- Houston County2
- Blount County1
- Colbert County1
- Cullman County1
- DeKalb County1
- Fayette County1
- Franklin County1
- Jackson County1
- Jefferson County1
- Lamar County1
- Lauderdale County1
- Lawrence County1
- Limestone County1
- Madison County1
- Marion County1
- Marshall County1
27 more counties
- Morgan County1
- Pickens County1
- Tuscaloosa County1
- Walker County1
- Winston County1
- Cleburne County1
- Mobile County1
- Monroe County1
- Wilcox County1
- Barbour County1
- Bullock County1
- Butler County1
- Chambers County1
- Clay County1
- Conecuh County1
- Coosa County1
- Covington County1
- Crenshaw County1
- Elmore County1
- Escambia County1
- Lee County1
- Macon County1
- Montgomery County1
- Pike County1
- Randolph County1
- Russell County1
- Tallapoosa 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.