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Tornado Watches in Alabama, 2025

22 tornado watches in 2025. 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 2025. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
22
Busiest month
March6 tornado watches
Busiest day
April 6, 20253 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
Feb 12, 1:32 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Dallas, Escambia and 6 more8 hr
Feb 12, 8:45 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAutauga, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke and 16 more6 hr
Feb 15, 9:11 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAutauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock and 56 more9 hr
Feb 16, 2:42 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCCoffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston6 hr
Mar 4, 5:41 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAutauga, Baldwin, Butler, Chilton, Choctaw, Clarke and 17 more7 hr
Mar 4, 11:05 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCCoffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston6 hr
Mar 15, 2:34 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCColbert, Cullman, Fayette, Franklin, Greene, Lamar and 11 more4 hr
Mar 15, 12:25 PM CDTTornado Watch PDSSPCAutauga, Baldwin, Bibb, Blount, Butler, Calhoun and 41 more9 hr
Mar 15, 7:47 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAutauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock and 40 more8 hr
Mar 30, 11:05 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCColbert, Cullman, Fayette, Franklin, Lamar, Lauderdale and 7 more6 hr
Apr 2, 11:35 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCColbert, Lauderdale8 hr
Apr 5, 1:43 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCColbert, Franklin, Lauderdale7 hr
Apr 5, 8:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCColbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Fayette, Franklin, Jackson and 11 more7 hr
Apr 6, 2:46 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAutauga, Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Chilton and 25 more7 hr
Apr 6, 10:01 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAutauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Chambers and 27 more9 hr
May 10, 10:22 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCCoffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston6 hr
May 20, 2:36 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCColbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Franklin, Jackson, Lauderdale and 5 more8 hr
May 20, 6:46 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBibb, Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Clay, Cleburne and 16 more7 hr
Oct 26, 5:23 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin, Mobile9 hr
Nov 7, 3:28 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCJackson, Lauderdale, Limestone, Madison6 hr
Nov 25, 12:05 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAutauga, Bibb, Butler, Chambers, Chilton, Choctaw and 25 more6 hr
Dec 18, 5:04 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCColbert, Cullman, Fayette, Franklin, Greene, Lamar and 11 more4 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. April 6, 20253tornado watches
  2. February 16, 20252tornado watches
  3. March 15, 20252tornado watches
  4. May 20, 20252tornado watches
  5. February 12, 20251tornado watches
  6. February 13, 20251tornado watches
  7. March 4, 20251tornado watches
  8. March 5, 20251tornado watches
  9. March 16, 20251tornado watches
  10. March 31, 20251tornado watches
  11. April 3, 20251tornado watches
  12. April 5, 20251tornado 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. Rebuilt daily.