Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Watches / 2021
Tornado Watches in Alabama, March 2021
10 tornado watches in March 2021. 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 2021. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 10
- Busiest day
- March 17, 20213 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 17, 11:36 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Chilton, Choctaw, Clarke and 25 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 17, 1:26 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee, Cleburne, Elmore, Etowah and 7 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 17, 6:48 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock and 44 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 17, 7:07 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Colbert, Cullman, Franklin, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone and 3 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 17, 11:02 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Coffee, Covington, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston | 9 hr |
| Mar 25, 11:26 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee and 39 more | 9 hr |
| Mar 25, 7:47 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Calhoun, Chambers, Chilton, Clay and 18 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 25, 7:57 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Colbert, DeKalb, Franklin, Jackson, Lauderdale, Lawrence and 4 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 27, 1:51 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Colbert, Jackson, Lauderdale, Limestone, Madison | 7 hr |
| Mar 27, 11:27 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blount, Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Fayette, Franklin and 11 more | 8 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Colbert County6
- Franklin County5
- Lawrence County5
- St. Clair County5
- Lauderdale County5
- Limestone County5
- Madison County5
- Autauga County4
- Bibb County4
- Blount County4
- Chilton County4
- Clay County4
- Coosa County4
- Cullman County4
- Dallas County4
- Fayette County4
- Hale County4
- Jefferson County4
- Lamar County4
- Marengo County4
- Marion County4
- Perry County4
- Shelby County4
- Talladega County4
- Tuscaloosa County4
- Walker County4
- Winston County4
- Calhoun County4
- Chambers County4
- Cleburne County4
- Randolph County4
- Tallapoosa County4
- Marshall County4
- Morgan County4
- Jackson County4
- Choctaw County3
- Clarke County3
- Greene County3
- Pickens County3
- Sumter County3
27 more counties
- Washington County3
- Wilcox County3
- Cherokee County3
- Elmore County3
- Etowah County3
- Lee County3
- Lowndes County3
- Macon County3
- Montgomery County3
- DeKalb County3
- Baldwin County1
- Barbour County1
- Bullock County1
- Butler County1
- Conecuh County1
- Crenshaw County1
- Escambia County1
- Mobile County1
- Monroe County1
- Pike County1
- Russell County1
- Coffee County1
- Covington County1
- Dale County1
- Geneva County1
- Henry County1
- Houston 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. Rebuilt daily.