Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Watches in 2024

Tornado Watch 690

October 9, 202430 counties in Florida

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Oct 9, 2024, 8:20 AM EDT for 30 counties in Florida. It was in force for 13 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Oct 9, 2024, 8:20 AM EDT (12:20 UTC)
Expired: Oct 9, 2024, 9:00 PM EDT
In force: 13 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 0.5 in
Strongest gust expected: 60 kt

All 30 counties

Brevard County, FL, Broward County, FL, Charlotte County, FL, Collier County, FL, DeSoto County, FL, Glades County, FL, Hardee County, FL, Hendry County, FL, Hernando County, FL, Highlands County, FL, Hillsborough County, FL, Indian River County, FL, Lake County, FL, Lee County, FL, Manatee County, FL, Martin County, FL, Miami-Dade County, FL, Monroe County, FL, Okeechobee County, FL, Orange County, FL, Osceola County, FL, Palm Beach County, FL, Pasco County, FL, Pinellas County, FL, Polk County, FL, Saint Lucie County, FL, Sarasota County, FL, Seminole County, FL, Sumter County, FL, Volusia County, FL

The radar

The Tampa radar (KTBW), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What SPC expected

The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.

Two or more tornadoes: 80%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes: 20%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 20%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 10%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 5%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 5%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 30%

Warnings issued inside it

130 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 9, 8:41 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Broward, Collier, Miami-Dade, Monroe	17 min
Oct 9, 9:10 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Broward, Collier, Miami-Dade	35 min
Oct 9, 9:42 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Broward, Collier, Hendry, Palm Beach	18 min
Oct 9, 9:52 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Broward, Palm Beach	23 min
Oct 9, 9:57 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Broward, Collier, Hendry, Palm Beach	33 min
Oct 9, 10:13 AM EDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	MFL	Broward, Palm Beach	32 min
Oct 9, 10:26 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Collier, Hendry	34 min
Oct 9, 10:26 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Glades, Hendry, Palm Beach	34 min
Oct 9, 10:52 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Palm Beach	23 min
Oct 9, 10:55 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Glades, Hendry	35 min
Oct 9, 10:58 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Collier, Hendry	17 min
Oct 9, 11:06 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Collier, Hendry	24 min
Oct 9, 11:15 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Palm Beach	30 min
Oct 9, 11:27 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Glades, Hendry	33 min
Oct 9, 11:29 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Glades	31 min
Oct 9, 11:33 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	TBW	Charlotte, Lee	27 min
Oct 9, 11:40 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Collier	19 min
Oct 9, 11:42 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Palm Beach	31 min
Oct 9, 11:45 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	MLB	Martin	45 min
Oct 9, 11:45 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	TBW	Highlands	45 min
Oct 9, 11:49 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	TBW	Lee	26 min
Oct 9, 11:56 AM EDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	MFL	Glades	34 min
Oct 9, 11:57 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Glades, Hendry	33 min
Oct 9, 11:58 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	TBW	Charlotte, Lee	31 min
Oct 9, 12:14 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TBW	Charlotte, Lee	17 min
Oct 9, 12:20 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TBW	Highlands	40 min
Oct 9, 12:25 PM EDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	MLB	Martin, Okeechobee, Saint Lucie	35 min
Oct 9, 12:27 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TBW	Highlands	48 min
Oct 9, 12:36 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TBW	Charlotte, Lee	24 min
Oct 9, 12:49 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Collier	26 min
Oct 9, 12:50 PM EDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	MLB	Martin, Okeechobee, Saint Lucie	40 min
Oct 9, 12:51 PM EDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	TBW	Charlotte, DeSoto, Lee	24 min
Oct 9, 12:53 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TBW	Lee	24 min
Oct 9, 12:54 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TBW	Highlands, Polk	51 min
Oct 9, 12:56 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TBW	Highlands, Polk	34 min
Oct 9, 1:07 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TBW	Charlotte, Lee	21 min
Oct 9, 1:12 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TBW	Charlotte, DeSoto	30 min
Oct 9, 1:19 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Collier, Hendry	26 min
Oct 9, 1:19 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TBW	Hardee, Highlands, Polk	26 min
Oct 9, 1:24 PM EDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	MLB	Indian River, Okeechobee, Saint Lucie	36 min
Oct 9, 1:24 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TBW	Polk	51 min
Oct 9, 1:29 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Palm Beach	16 min
Oct 9, 1:32 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MLB	Martin, Saint Lucie	43 min
Oct 9, 1:36 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Glades	24 min
Oct 9, 1:41 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TBW	Hardee, Polk	28 min
Oct 9, 1:44 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Collier, Hendry	31 min
Oct 9, 1:44 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MLB	Okeechobee	46 min
Oct 9, 1:46 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TBW	Highlands	44 min
Oct 9, 1:49 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TBW	DeSoto, Hardee	41 min
Oct 9, 1:50 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MLB	Martin, Okeechobee	40 min
Oct 9, 1:51 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Glades, Hendry	24 min
Oct 9, 1:52 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MLB	Brevard, Indian River, Okeechobee	38 min
Oct 9, 1:54 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TBW	Charlotte, DeSoto, Highlands, Lee	29 min
Oct 9, 2:03 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TBW	Polk	42 min
Oct 9, 2:05 PM EDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	TBW	Highlands	25 min
Oct 9, 2:06 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MLB	Martin, Saint Lucie	39 min
Oct 9, 2:07 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Collier, Monroe	23 min
Oct 9, 2:13 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Glades, Hendry	32 min
Oct 9, 2:17 PM EDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	MLB	Indian River, Okeechobee, Osceola	43 min
Oct 9, 2:20 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MLB	Brevard, Indian River, Osceola	40 min
Oct 9, 2:21 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Hendry, Palm Beach	24 min
Oct 9, 2:22 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TBW	DeSoto, Hardee, Highlands, Polk	38 min
Oct 9, 2:23 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Collier, Monroe	10 min
Oct 9, 2:24 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Glades	10 min
Oct 9, 2:24 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TBW	DeSoto, Highlands	36 min
Oct 9, 2:26 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Broward, Collier	24 min
Oct 9, 2:31 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	TBW	Pinellas	3 hr
Oct 9, 2:33 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Collier, Monroe	23 min
Oct 9, 2:37 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Palm Beach	38 min
Oct 9, 2:39 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MLB	Indian River, Saint Lucie	36 min
Oct 9, 2:42 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TBW	Polk	22 min
Oct 9, 2:45 PM EDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	MFL	Glades	15 min
Oct 9, 2:46 PM EDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	MLB	Brevard, Indian River, Okeechobee, Osceola	44 min
Oct 9, 2:47 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TBW	Highlands, Polk	43 min
Oct 9, 2:48 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Broward, Collier, Hendry, Palm Beach	27 min
Oct 9, 2:49 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MLB	Brevard, Osceola	41 min
Oct 9, 2:51 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Hendry, Palm Beach	13 min
Oct 9, 2:53 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MLB	Martin, Saint Lucie	37 min
Oct 9, 2:58 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MLB	Martin, Saint Lucie	47 min
Oct 9, 2:58 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TBW	DeSoto, Hardee, Highlands, Polk	32 min
Oct 9, 3:03 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Broward, Collier	27 min
Oct 9, 3:12 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MLB	Indian River, Saint Lucie	33 min
Oct 9, 3:12 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	TBW	DeSoto, Hardee, Highlands, Hillsborough, Manatee, Polk	3 hr
Oct 9, 3:16 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Palm Beach	29 min
Oct 9, 3:20 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MLB	Brevard, Osceola	40 min
Oct 9, 3:21 PM EDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	MLB	Martin, Saint Lucie	39 min
Oct 9, 3:22 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MLB	Orange, Osceola	38 min
Oct 9, 3:23 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Broward, Collier	11 min
Oct 9, 3:25 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Palm Beach	20 min
Oct 9, 3:28 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	MLB	Brevard, Indian River, Martin, Okeechobee, Osceola, Saint Lucie	3 hr
Oct 9, 3:35 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MLB	Okeechobee	40 min
Oct 9, 3:38 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TBW	Polk	14 min
Oct 9, 3:39 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Palm Beach	21 min
Oct 9, 3:39 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TBW	Highlands, Polk	21 min
Oct 9, 3:46 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MLB	Brevard, Indian River	29 min
Oct 9, 3:47 PM EDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	MFL	Broward, Palm Beach	28 min
Oct 9, 3:52 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MLB	Orange, Osceola	38 min
Oct 9, 3:57 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	MLB	Brevard, Indian River, Orange, Osceola, Seminole, Volusia	3 hr
Oct 9, 3:58 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MLB	Indian River, Saint Lucie	32 min
Oct 9, 4:07 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MLB	Martin, Saint Lucie	38 min
Oct 9, 4:08 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MLB	Orange	37 min
Oct 9, 4:12 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MLB	Indian River, Okeechobee, Saint Lucie	48 min
Oct 9, 4:14 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Broward, Palm Beach	16 min
Oct 9, 4:14 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MLB	Indian River	46 min
Oct 9, 4:14 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MLB	Martin, Okeechobee, Saint Lucie	31 min
Oct 9, 4:18 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Palm Beach	27 min
Oct 9, 4:28 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Palm Beach	32 min
Oct 9, 4:28 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MLB	Orange	36 min
Oct 9, 4:40 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Palm Beach	20 min
Oct 9, 4:40 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	TBW	Manatee, Sarasota	3 hr
Oct 9, 4:41 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MLB	Martin, Okeechobee, Saint Lucie	34 min
Oct 9, 4:48 PM EDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	MFL	Palm Beach	27 min
Oct 9, 4:59 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MLB	Martin, Saint Lucie	31 min
Oct 9, 5:06 PM EDT	Tornado Warning Considerable damage threat	MLB	Indian River, Saint Lucie	24 min
Oct 9, 5:07 PM EDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	MFL	Palm Beach	23 min
Oct 9, 5:16 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MLB	Martin	29 min
Oct 9, 5:25 PM EDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	MLB	Martin, Saint Lucie	35 min
Oct 9, 5:26 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MLB	Brevard	19 min
Oct 9, 5:28 PM EDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	MLB	Indian River	17 min
Oct 9, 5:38 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	MLB	Indian River, Saint Lucie	112 min
Oct 9, 5:40 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MLB	Martin	35 min
Oct 9, 5:41 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	TBW	Pasco, Pinellas	2 hr
Oct 9, 5:51 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MLB	Brevard	24 min
Oct 9, 5:57 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MLB	Indian River, Saint Lucie	22 min
Oct 9, 6:01 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MLB	Martin, Saint Lucie	29 min
Oct 9, 6:23 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	TBW	Hardee, Hernando, Highlands, Hillsborough, Manatee, Pasco and 2 more	82 min
Oct 9, 6:43 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	MLB	Brevard, Lake, Orange, Osceola, Seminole, Volusia	5 hr
Oct 9, 6:49 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MLB	Brevard	10 min
Oct 9, 7:43 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	TBW	Citrus, Hernando, Hillsborough, Manatee, Pasco, Pinellas and 2 more	7 hr
Oct 9, 8:23 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning EmergencyConsiderable damage threat	TBW	Hillsborough, Manatee, Pinellas	6 hr

Discussions around it

SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.

The nearest sounding before it

Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 146 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 346 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 566 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 249 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 400 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 5.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 9, 12:31 AM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Monroe	89 min
Oct 9, 5:45 AM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Broward, Charlotte, Collier, Glades, Hendry, Lee and 4 more	4 hr
Oct 9, 10:19 AM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Broward, Collier, Hendry, Palm Beach	86 min
Oct 9, 11:12 AM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Charlotte, Lee	93 min
Oct 9, 11:50 AM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Glades, Hendry, Highlands, Indian River, Martin, Okeechobee and 3 more	115 min
Oct 9, 12:35 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Broward, Hendry, Palm Beach	85 min
Oct 9, 1:13 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Charlotte, Collier, DeSoto, Lee, Manatee, Sarasota	92 min
Oct 9, 1:51 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brevard, Indian River, Martin, Okeechobee, Orange, Osceola and 2 more	84 min
Oct 9, 2:49 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brevard, Broward, Indian River, Martin, Okeechobee, Osceola and 3 more	86 min
Oct 9, 4:15 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brevard, Broward, Indian River, Martin, Okeechobee, Osceola and 2 more	90 min
Oct 9, 6:22 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brevard, Glades, Hardee, Hendry, Hernando, Highlands and 14 more	113 min

Nearby

Tornado Watches in Florida, 2024 Every tornado watch in 2024

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.