Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Watches / 2020
Tornado Watches in Alabama, March 2020
7 tornado watches in March 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 March 2020. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 7
- Busiest day
- March 4, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 5:12 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Bullock, Chambers, Chilton, Clay and 15 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 4, 1:53 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington and 6 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 4, 9:16 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston | 6 hr |
| Mar 24, 3:06 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Franklin, Jackson, Lamar and 8 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 24, 7:44 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blount, Cherokee, Etowah, Fayette, Walker | 3 hr |
| Mar 28, 9:58 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blount, Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Fayette, Franklin and 16 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 31, 8:51 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Chambers and 26 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Autauga County2
- Bullock County2
- Chambers County2
- Clay County2
- Coosa County2
- Dallas County2
- Elmore County2
- Greene County2
- Lee County2
- Lowndes County2
- Macon County2
- Montgomery County2
- Randolph County2
- Russell County2
- Sumter County2
- Tallapoosa County2
- Baldwin County2
- Butler County2
- Clarke County2
- Conecuh County2
- Covington County2
- Crenshaw County2
- Escambia County2
- Mobile County2
- Monroe County2
- Washington County2
- Wilcox County2
- Coffee County2
- Dale County2
- Geneva County2
- Henry County2
- Houston County2
- Colbert County2
- Cullman County2
- DeKalb County2
- Franklin County2
- Jackson County2
- Lamar County2
- Lauderdale County2
- Lawrence County2
22 more counties
- Limestone County2
- Madison County2
- Marion County2
- Marshall County2
- Morgan County2
- Winston County2
- Blount County2
- Fayette County2
- Walker County2
- Bibb County1
- Chilton County1
- Hale County1
- Marengo County1
- Perry County1
- Choctaw County1
- Cherokee County1
- Etowah County1
- Jefferson County1
- Pickens County1
- Tuscaloosa County1
- Barbour County1
- Pike 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.