Alert archive / Florida / Polk County
Weather alerts in Polk County, Florida, 1998
61 weather alerts in 1998, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.
Polk County and its neighbors
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 61
- Warnings
- 39
- Watches
- 22
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest month
- February18 alerts
- Busiest day
- March 9, 19985 alerts
Over time
By month
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 | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 8, 2:30 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Jan 23, 9:49 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TBW | 46 min |
| Jan 23, 10:42 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TBW | 48 min |
| Jan 23, 11:51 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TBW | 49 min |
| Feb 2, 2:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Feb 2, 8:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Feb 15, 6:15 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Feb 16, 1:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| Feb 16, 2:25 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TBW | 50 min |
| Feb 16, 2:38 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | 32 min |
| Feb 16, 3:11 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | 49 min |
| Feb 17, 3:30 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Feb 17, 4:59 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TBW | 46 min |
| Feb 19, 4:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Feb 19, 9:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Feb 19, 10:54 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | 46 min |
| Feb 20, 3:00 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
| Feb 22, 2:15 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Feb 22, 9:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Feb 23, 12:00 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TBW | 45 min |
| Feb 28, 11:00 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Feb 28, 11:45 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | 65 min |
| Feb 28, 8:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Mar 1, 12:42 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | 63 min |
| Mar 1, 12:53 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TBW | 47 min |
| Mar 1, 3:15 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Mar 8, 8:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Mar 9, 12:34 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | 51 min |
| Mar 9, 1:00 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Mar 9, 1:24 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | 46 min |
| Mar 9, 1:32 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TBW | 33 min |
| Mar 20, 12:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Mar 20, 1:54 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | 46 min |
| May 4, 1:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | 50 min |
| May 4, 2:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | 35 min |
| May 4, 2:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | 45 min |
| May 5, 10:39 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | 46 min |
| May 5, 11:27 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | 48 min |
| May 5, 11:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| May 5, 12:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | 49 min |
| May 18, 2:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Jun 19, 3:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | 28 min |
| Jun 21, 5:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | 50 min |
| Jun 22, 8:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | 51 min |
| Jun 30, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | 40 min |
| Jun 30, 5:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | 37 min |
| Jun 30, 6:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | 46 min |
| Jul 2, 3:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | 24 min |
| Jul 2, 4:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | 33 min |
| Jul 4, 6:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | 45 min |
| Jul 12, 1:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | 43 min |
| Jul 12, 2:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | 47 min |
| Jul 12, 3:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | 64 min |
| Jul 19, 4:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | 40 min |
| Sep 2, 3:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
| Sep 25, 8:59 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | 46 min |
| Sep 25, 9:52 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | 48 min |
| Sep 25, 10:40 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | 35 min |
| Sep 25, 11:00 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 12 hr |
| Sep 25, 1:21 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | 49 min |
| Sep 25, 11:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
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 | 27 |
| Tornado Warning | 12 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 4 |
| Tornado Watch | 18 |
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.