Alert archive / Florida / 1997
Weather alerts in Florida, December 1997
33 weather alerts in December 1997, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state.
Weather alerts by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in December 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 33
- Warnings
- 28
- Watches
- 5
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- December 27, 19979 alerts
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Eastern Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 9, 11:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, Gulf, Holmes, Jackson and 4 more | 6 hr |
| Dec 10, 3:00 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Columbia, Duval, Gadsden, Hamilton, Jefferson and 6 more | 5 hr |
| Dec 10, 7:18 AM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Baker, Columbia | 62 min |
| Dec 10, 8:00 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alachua, Bradford, Citrus, Clay, Dixie, Duval and 12 more | 5 hr |
| Dec 10, 8:18 AM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Duval | 62 min |
| Dec 11, 12:12 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Putnam | 23 min |
| Dec 13, 4:02 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Indian River | 58 min |
| Dec 13, 6:45 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | MLB | Osceola | 3 hr |
| Dec 13, 9:36 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | MLB | Osceola | 4 hr |
| Dec 13, 12:29 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | TBW | Hardee, Hillsborough, Manatee, Polk, Sarasota | 12 hr |
| Dec 13, 12:29 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | TBW | Pasco, Pinellas | 12 hr |
| Dec 13, 1:41 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | MLB | Osceola | 17 hr |
| Dec 13, 11:38 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | TBW | Hillsborough, Manatee | 9 hr |
| Dec 13, 11:38 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | TBW | Pasco | 9 hr |
| Dec 14, 6:27 AM EST | Tornado Warning | MFL | Monroe | 33 min |
| Dec 14, 9:08 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | TBW | Hillsborough, Pasco | 6 hr |
| Dec 14, 9:08 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | TBW | Manatee | 6 hr |
| Dec 14, 12:01 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | MLB | Osceola | 5 hr |
| Dec 15, 12:58 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JAX | Flagler | 6 hr |
| Dec 15, 12:58 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JAX | Nassau | 6 hr |
| Dec 15, 12:58 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JAX | Clay, Duval, Flagler, Putnam, Saint Johns | 6 hr |
| Dec 15, 12:58 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JAX | Clay, Duval, Putnam, Saint Johns | 6 hr |
| Dec 24, 7:12 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Holmes | 63 min |
| Dec 27, 3:30 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TBW | Polk | 45 min |
| Dec 27, 4:00 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Brevard, Citrus, Clay and 31 more | 6 hr |
| Dec 27, 4:45 AM EST | Tornado Warning | MLB | Osceola | 55 min |
| Dec 27, 5:50 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TBW | Hillsborough, Pinellas | 60 min |
| Dec 27, 6:56 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Hillsborough, Manatee, Polk | 64 min |
| Dec 27, 6:56 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Pinellas | 64 min |
| Dec 27, 9:30 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Broward, Collier, Glades, Hendry, Indian River, Lee and 6 more | 7 hr |
| Dec 27, 12:42 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | MLB | Osceola | 3 hr |
| Dec 27, 3:38 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | MLB | Osceola | 12 hr |
| Dec 29, 8:18 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | DeSoto | 27 min |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Severe storms | |
| Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 6 |
| Tornado Warning | 6 |
| Tornado Watch | 5 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 16 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Osceola County8
- Duval County6
- Hillsborough County6
- Pasco County5
- Putnam County5
- Manatee County5
- Clay County4
- Flagler County4
- Saint Johns County4
- Polk County4
- Pinellas County4
- Baker County3
- Columbia County3
- Nassau County3
- Indian River County3
- Holmes County2
- Hamilton County2
- Jefferson County2
- Madison County2
- Suwannee County2
- Alachua County2
- Bradford County2
- Citrus County2
- Dixie County2
- Gilchrist County2
- Hernando County2
- Lake County2
- Levy County2
- Marion County2
- Sumter County2
- Union County2
- Volusia County2
- Hardee County2
- Monroe County2
- Bay County1
- Calhoun County1
- Escambia County1
- Gulf County1
- Jackson County1
- Okaloosa County1
24 more counties
- Santa Rosa County1
- Walton County1
- Washington County1
- Gadsden County1
- Leon County1
- Liberty County1
- Wakulla County1
- Sarasota County1
- Brevard County1
- Lafayette County1
- Orange County1
- Seminole County1
- Taylor County1
- Broward County1
- Collier County1
- Glades County1
- Hendry County1
- Lee County1
- Martin County1
- Miami-Dade County1
- Okeechobee County1
- Palm Beach County1
- Saint Lucie County1
- DeSoto County1
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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.