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Tornado Watches in Alabama, 2023

38 tornado watches in 2023. 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 2023. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
38
Busiest month
January11 tornado watches
Busiest day
January 12, 20234 tornado watches

Over time

By month

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 3, 9:14 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCAutauga, Bibb, Blount, Chilton, Choctaw, Clarke and 30 more8 hr
Jan 3, 12:56 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBarbour, Bullock, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee, Clay and 13 more7 hr
Jan 3, 3:20 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCButler, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw, Dale and 4 more5 hr
Jan 3, 10:05 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAutauga, Bibb, Blount, Butler, Chilton, Choctaw and 34 more6 hr
Jan 4, 2:59 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Chambers, Clay, Coffee and 13 more7 hr
Jan 12, 6:59 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCBibb, Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Chilton, Colbert and 27 more7 hr
Jan 12, 10:20 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCAutauga, Baldwin, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh and 12 more7 hr
Jan 12, 12:06 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBarbour, Bullock, Chambers, Clay, Cleburne, Lee and 5 more8 hr
Jan 12, 2:36 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCCoffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston6 hr
Jan 24, 9:32 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington, Escambia, Mobile and 2 more8 hr
Jan 25, 3:03 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCGeneva, Houston8 hr
Feb 16, 12:00 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCColbert, Cullman, Franklin, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone and 2 more7 hr
Feb 16, 1:50 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAutauga, Bibb, Blount, Chilton, Choctaw, Clarke and 19 more6 hr
Mar 1, 7:36 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCColbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Fayette, Franklin, Jackson and 10 more6 hr
Mar 3, 6:24 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCColbert, Cullman, Fayette, Franklin, Lamar, Lauderdale and 7 more7 hr
Mar 3, 10:34 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCBlount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Clay, Cleburne, DeKalb and 9 more5 hr
Mar 12, 12:04 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCHouston7 hr
Mar 24, 9:27 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCColbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Fayette, Franklin, Jackson and 10 more5 hr
Mar 26, 6:34 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAutauga, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Chambers, Chilton and 19 more5 hr
Mar 26, 5:49 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAutauga, Barbour, Bibb, Bullock, Butler, Calhoun and 33 more7 hr
Mar 31, 5:58 PM CDTTornado Watch PDSSPCColbert, Franklin, Lauderdale6 hr
Mar 31, 11:59 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCColbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Fayette, Franklin, Jackson and 10 more6 hr
Apr 1, 3:19 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAutauga, Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Chilton and 19 more5 hr
Apr 3, 4:57 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington, Escambia and 3 more6 hr
Apr 3, 9:51 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCCoffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston6 hr
Apr 13, 5:40 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCCoffee, Covington, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston7 hr
Jun 14, 10:09 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAutauga, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Chambers and 32 more7 hr
Jun 14, 11:17 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCCoffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston6 hr
Jun 14, 5:41 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCoffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston5 hr
Jun 15, 5:52 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Coffee, Conecuh and 8 more9 hr
Jun 15, 9:03 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCCoffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston6 hr
Jun 18, 9:29 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBibb, Choctaw, Clarke, Colbert, Dallas, Fayette and 16 more4 hr
Jun 19, 12:57 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBibb, Choctaw, Clarke, Dallas, Fayette, Greene and 12 more7 hr
Dec 9, 3:20 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCColbert, Franklin, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone, Madison and 1 more7 hr
Dec 9, 3:56 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCFayette, Greene, Lamar, Marion, Pickens, Sumter and 3 more8 hr
Dec 9, 7:48 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBlount, Cherokee, Cullman, DeKalb, Etowah, Jackson and 1 more7 hr
Dec 9, 10:10 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAutauga, Bibb, Calhoun, Chilton, Choctaw, Clarke and 14 more6 hr
Dec 10, 12:58 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCBarbour, Bullock, Butler, Chambers, Coffee, Conecuh and 16 more9 hr

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

27 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. January 12, 20234tornado watches
  2. January 3, 20233tornado watches
  3. June 14, 20233tornado watches
  4. December 10, 20233tornado watches
  5. January 4, 20232tornado watches
  6. January 25, 20232tornado watches
  7. February 16, 20232tornado watches
  8. March 3, 20232tornado watches
  9. March 26, 20232tornado watches
  10. April 1, 20232tornado watches
  11. April 3, 20232tornado watches
  12. June 15, 20232tornado watches

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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.