Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Watches / 2021
Tornado Watches in Alabama, May 2021
4 tornado watches in May 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 May 2021. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 4
- Busiest day
- May 4, 20212 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 4:46 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bibb, Dallas, Fayette, Greene, Hale, Lamar and 5 more | 5 hr |
| May 3, 9:29 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bullock, Chambers, Clay, Cleburne, Coosa, Elmore and 6 more | 5 hr |
| May 4, 9:18 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Chilton and 28 more | 7 hr |
| May 4, 3:31 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Bibb, Butler, Chilton, Choctaw and 20 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Bibb County3
- Dallas County3
- Greene County3
- Hale County3
- Marengo County3
- Perry County3
- Pickens County3
- Sumter County3
- Tuscaloosa County3
- Coosa County3
- Fayette County2
- Lamar County2
- Clay County2
- Cleburne County2
- Elmore County2
- Montgomery County2
- Tallapoosa County2
- Autauga County2
- Chilton County2
- Choctaw County2
- Clarke County2
- Washington County2
- Wilcox County2
- Bullock County1
- Chambers County1
- Lee County1
- Macon County1
- Randolph County1
- Russell County1
- Blount County1
- Calhoun County1
- Cherokee County1
- Cullman County1
- DeKalb County1
- Etowah County1
- Jefferson County1
- Marshall County1
- Morgan County1
- St. Clair County1
- Shelby 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. Rebuilt daily.