Hurricane Watches in Florida
74 hurricane 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 hurricane watches reaches back to 2005.
Hurricane Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Hurricane Watches
- 74
- Busiest year
- 200810 hurricane watches
- Average year
- 5over 14 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.
- Monroe County12
- Flagler County10
- Levy County10
- Nassau County9
- Pinellas County9
- Bay County9
- Walton County9
- Citrus County9
- Hernando County9
- Pasco County9
- Collier County8
- Dixie County8
- Gulf County7
- Duval County7
- Franklin County7
- Jefferson County7
- Palm Beach County7
- Taylor County7
- Volusia County7
- Wakulla County7
- Hillsborough County7
- Miami-Dade County6
- Broward County6
- Manatee County6
- DeSoto County5
- Leon County5
- Sarasota County5
- Madison County4
- Okeechobee County4
- Orange County4
- Osceola County4
- Seminole County4
- Sumter County4
- Gadsden County3
- Charlotte County3
- Gilchrist County3
- Glades County3
- Hardee County3
- Hendry County3
- Highlands County3
25 more counties
- Lafayette County3
- Lake County3
- Lee County3
- Polk County3
- Suwannee County3
- Marion County3
- Calhoun County2
- Baker County2
- Bradford County2
- Escambia County2
- Okaloosa County2
- Santa Rosa County2
- Union County2
- Brevard County2
- Indian River County2
- Martin County2
- Alachua County2
- Holmes County1
- Jackson County1
- Washington County1
- Saint Lucie County1
- Clay County1
- Columbia County1
- Hamilton County1
- Putnam 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.