Excessive Heat Watches in Florida
43 excessive heat 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 excessive heat watches reaches back to 2005.
Excessive Heat Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Excessive Heat Watches
- 43
- Busiest year
- 202332 excessive heat watches
- Average year
- 7over 6 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.
- Escambia County13
- Santa Rosa County12
- Bay County10
- Calhoun County10
- Franklin County10
- Gulf County10
- Holmes County10
- Jackson County10
- Walton County10
- Washington County10
- Okaloosa County9
- Jefferson County9
- Wakulla County9
- Clay County9
- Duval County9
- Flagler County9
- Nassau County9
- Putnam County9
- Suwannee County9
- Dixie County8
- Lafayette County8
- Taylor County8
- Alachua County8
- Baker County8
- Bradford County8
- Gadsden County8
- Gilchrist County8
- Leon County8
- Madison County8
- Marion County8
- Union County8
- Martin County2
- Okeechobee County2
- Saint Lucie County2
- Brevard County1
- Broward County1
- Collier County1
- Glades County1
- Hendry County1
- Indian River 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. Rebuilt daily.