Alert archive / Florida / Polk County / 1998
Weather alerts in Polk County, Florida, February 1998
18 weather alerts in February 1998, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.
- Alerts
- 18
- Warnings
- 7
- Watches
- 11
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- February 16, 19984 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 | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
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 | 4 |
| Tornado Warning | 3 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 1 |
| Tornado Watch | 10 |
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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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.