Winter Storm Watches in Alabama
54 winter storm watches since 1986. 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 winter storm watches reaches back to 2005.
Winter Storm Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Winter Storm Watches
- 54
- Busiest year
- 20118 winter storm watches
- Average year
- 3over 16 years on file
Over time
By year
Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.
By month of the year
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Limestone County20
- Lawrence County19
- Madison County19
- Lauderdale County18
- Blount County18
- Lamar County18
- Marion County18
- Walker County18
- Winston County18
- Jackson County18
- Morgan County18
- Colbert County17
- Fayette County17
- Cullman County17
- Franklin County17
- Cherokee County16
- Etowah County16
- DeKalb County16
- Marshall County15
- Calhoun County14
- Cleburne County14
- St. Clair County13
- Jefferson County13
- Pickens County13
- Randolph County13
- Bibb County12
- Clay County12
- Perry County12
- Shelby County12
- Tuscaloosa County12
- Chilton County11
- Coosa County11
- Greene County11
- Sumter County11
- Talladega County11
- Hale County10
- Chambers County9
- Marengo County9
- Tallapoosa County9
- Autauga County8
27 more counties
- Dallas County8
- Elmore County8
- Lee County7
- Lowndes County7
- Macon County7
- Montgomery County7
- Bullock County6
- Russell County6
- Choctaw County5
- Clarke County5
- Washington County5
- Barbour County5
- Pike County5
- Butler County4
- Conecuh County4
- Covington County4
- Crenshaw County4
- Monroe County4
- Wilcox County4
- Coffee County4
- Dale County4
- Geneva County4
- Henry County4
- Houston County4
- Escambia County3
- Baldwin County1
- Mobile County1
The latest winter storm watches
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 21, 2:15 AM CST | Winter Storm Watch | HUN | Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Franklin, Jackson, Lauderdale and 5 more | 33 hr |
| Jan 21, 2:08 AM CST | Winter Storm Watch | BMX | Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Cleburne, Etowah, Fayette and 4 more | 68 hr |
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. Rebuilt daily.