Alert archive / Florida / 1998
Weather alerts in Florida, January 1998
46 weather alerts in January 1998, 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 January 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 46
- Warnings
- 38
- Watches
- 8
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- January 23, 199816 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 7, 5:00 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 6 hr |
| Jan 7, 9:14 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia | 61 min |
| Jan 7, 9:41 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Santa Rosa | 64 min |
| Jan 7, 10:15 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes and 8 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 7, 10:40 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 60 min |
| Jan 7, 10:49 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Santa Rosa | 31 min |
| Jan 7, 4:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Columbia, Dixie, Gilchrist, Hamilton, Jefferson, Lafayette and 4 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 7, 10:42 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Putnam | 68 min |
| Jan 8, 2:30 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Brevard, Citrus, Clay and 20 more | 7 hr |
| Jan 8, 3:39 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Hillsborough, Manatee, Pinellas | 61 min |
| Jan 8, 3:39 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Sarasota | 61 min |
| Jan 8, 4:09 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Marion | 56 min |
| Jan 8, 5:01 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TBW | Pasco, Sumter | 29 min |
| Jan 8, 5:06 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Lake | 54 min |
| Jan 8, 7:08 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Sarasota | 62 min |
| Jan 8, 8:37 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Osceola | 48 min |
| Jan 8, 8:46 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JAX | Marion | 6 hr |
| Jan 8, 8:57 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Brevard | 58 min |
| Jan 8, 9:30 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | DeSoto, Glades, Hendry, Highlands, Indian River, Lee and 5 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 8, 10:57 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Brevard | 63 min |
| Jan 8, 3:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Broward, Collier, Hendry, Miami-Dade, Monroe, Palm Beach | 5 hr |
| Jan 8, 3:02 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JAX | Marion | 6 hr |
| Jan 22, 1:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 9 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 22, 1:52 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 48 min |
| Jan 22, 2:11 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Walton | 59 min |
| Jan 22, 3:11 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Bay | 64 min |
| Jan 23, 8:24 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Pinellas | |
| Jan 23, 8:25 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TBW | Charlotte, DeSoto, Sarasota | 60 min |
| Jan 23, 8:46 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TBW | Hillsborough, Pinellas | 49 min |
| Jan 23, 8:50 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TBW | Hardee | 45 min |
| Jan 23, 9:15 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brevard, Broward, Charlotte, Collier, DeSoto, Glades and 12 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 23, 9:23 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TBW | DeSoto, Hardee | 47 min |
| Jan 23, 9:28 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TBW | Hillsborough, Pasco | 47 min |
| Jan 23, 9:38 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TBW | Highlands | 47 min |
| Jan 23, 9:49 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TBW | Polk | 46 min |
| Jan 23, 10:28 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Indian River | 47 min |
| Jan 23, 10:33 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TBW | Hardee, Highlands | 47 min |
| Jan 23, 10:42 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TBW | Polk | 48 min |
| Jan 23, 11:20 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Brevard | 60 min |
| Jan 23, 11:51 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TBW | Polk | 49 min |
| Jan 23, 12:54 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Brevard | 21 min |
| Jan 23, 1:44 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | MLB | Brevard | 4 hr |
| Jan 23, 7:31 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | TBW | Manatee | 6 hr |
| Jan 24, 2:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | TBW | Manatee | 8 hr |
| Jan 27, 5:26 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Clay | 49 min |
| Jan 27, 6:29 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Clay | 31 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 | 22 |
| Tornado Warning | 11 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 1 |
| Tornado Watch | 7 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 5 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Brevard County7
- Okaloosa County5
- Hardee County5
- Manatee County5
- Santa Rosa County4
- Hillsborough County4
- Marion County4
- Osceola County4
- Pinellas County4
- Polk County4
- Sarasota County4
- DeSoto County4
- Highlands County4
- Escambia County3
- Bay County3
- Leon County3
- Walton County3
- Clay County3
- Pasco County3
- Hendry County3
- Indian River County3
- Palm Beach County3
- Calhoun County2
- Franklin County2
- Gadsden County2
- Gulf County2
- Holmes County2
- Jackson County2
- Jefferson County2
- Liberty County2
- Wakulla County2
- Washington County2
- Putnam County2
- Lake County2
- Sumter County2
- Glades County2
- Lee County2
- Martin County2
- Okeechobee County2
- Saint Lucie County2
26 more counties
- Broward County2
- Collier County2
- Charlotte County2
- Columbia County1
- Dixie County1
- Gilchrist County1
- Hamilton County1
- Lafayette County1
- Madison County1
- Suwannee County1
- Taylor County1
- Alachua County1
- Baker County1
- Bradford County1
- Citrus County1
- Duval County1
- Flagler County1
- Hernando County1
- Nassau County1
- Orange County1
- Saint Johns County1
- Seminole County1
- Union County1
- Volusia County1
- Miami-Dade County1
- Monroe 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.