Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Watches / 2024
Tornado Watches in Alabama, May 2024
8 tornado watches in May 2024. 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 2024. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 8
- Busiest day
- May 9, 20244 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 8, 4:14 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Franklin, Jackson, Lauderdale and 5 more | 7 hr |
| May 8, 10:11 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | DeKalb, Jackson, Limestone, Madison, Marshall | 5 hr |
| May 9, 3:02 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Clay, Cleburne, Colbert and 23 more | 7 hr |
| May 9, 8:51 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Bullock, Calhoun, Chambers and 22 more | 6 hr |
| May 9, 12:47 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dale, Henry, Houston | 7 hr |
| May 16, 10:53 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Mobile | 4 hr |
| May 17, 2:59 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Coffee, Covington, Dale, Escambia, Geneva, Henry and 1 more | 6 hr |
| May 27, 1:10 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blount, Cherokee, Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Etowah and 13 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- DeKalb County4
- Jackson County4
- Limestone County4
- Madison County4
- Marshall County4
- Colbert County3
- Cullman County3
- Franklin County3
- Lauderdale County3
- Lawrence County3
- Morgan County3
- Blount County2
- Calhoun County2
- Cherokee County2
- Clay County2
- Cleburne County2
- Etowah County2
- Fayette County2
- Jefferson County2
- Lamar County2
- Marion County2
- Randolph County2
- St. Clair County2
- Shelby County2
- Talladega County2
- Tuscaloosa County2
- Walker County2
- Winston County2
- Dale County2
- Henry County2
- Houston County2
- Pickens County1
- Autauga County1
- Barbour County1
- Bibb County1
- Bullock County1
- Chambers County1
- Chilton County1
- Coosa County1
- Dallas 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.