Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Watches / 2026
Tornado Watches in Alabama, May 2026
3 tornado watches in May 2026. 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 2026. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 3
- Busiest day
- May 7, 20262 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 6, 2:39 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Butler and 45 more | 8 hr |
| May 6, 10:58 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke and 15 more | 9 hr |
| May 7, 1:58 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston | 11 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Barbour County2
- Bullock County2
- Butler County2
- Choctaw County2
- Clarke County2
- Conecuh County2
- Crenshaw County2
- Dallas County2
- Lowndes County2
- Macon County2
- Marengo County2
- Monroe County2
- Montgomery County2
- Pike County2
- Russell County2
- Washington County2
- Wilcox County2
- Autauga County1
- Bibb County1
- Blount County1
- Calhoun County1
- Chambers County1
- Cherokee County1
- Chilton County1
- Clay County1
- Cleburne County1
- Coosa County1
- Cullman County1
- DeKalb County1
- Elmore County1
- Etowah County1
- Fayette County1
- Greene County1
- Hale County1
- Jefferson County1
- Lamar County1
- Lee County1
- Marion County1
- Marshall County1
- Morgan County1
20 more counties
- Perry County1
- Pickens County1
- Randolph County1
- St. Clair County1
- Shelby County1
- Sumter County1
- Talladega County1
- Tallapoosa County1
- Tuscaloosa County1
- Walker County1
- Winston County1
- Baldwin County1
- Covington County1
- Escambia County1
- Mobile County1
- Coffee County1
- Dale County1
- Geneva County1
- Henry County1
- Houston County1
Nearby
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.