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Tornado Warnings in Polk County, Florida, 1997

15 tornado warnings in 1997. An alert counts here when it covered this county. The archive of tornado warnings reaches back to 1986.

Polk County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 1997. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
15
Busiest month
April4 tornado warnings
Busiest day
April 28, 19973 tornado warnings

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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Apr 26, 11:20 AM EDTTornado WarningTBW55 min
Apr 28, 12:20 PM EDTTornado WarningTBW40 min
Apr 28, 1:02 PM EDTTornado WarningTBW43 min
Apr 28, 1:46 PM EDTTornado WarningTBW59 min
May 22, 5:46 PM EDTTornado WarningTBW49 min
May 22, 6:36 PM EDTTornado WarningTBW44 min
May 28, 3:00 PM EDTTornado WarningTBW30 min
Jun 5, 7:43 PM EDTTornado WarningTBW32 min
Jun 11, 6:34 PM EDTTornado WarningTBW31 min
Jun 11, 7:05 PM EDTTornado WarningTBW30 min
Aug 1, 1:04 PM EDTTornado WarningTBW31 min
Oct 27, 9:15 AM ESTTornado WarningTBW45 min
Oct 31, 2:09 PM ESTTornado WarningTBW46 min
Oct 31, 2:50 PM ESTTornado WarningTBW45 min
Dec 27, 3:30 AM ESTTornado WarningTBW45 min

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. April 28, 19973tornado warnings
  2. May 22, 19972tornado warnings
  3. June 11, 19972tornado warnings
  4. October 31, 19972tornado warnings
  5. April 26, 19971tornado warnings
  6. May 28, 19971tornado warnings
  7. June 5, 19971tornado warnings
  8. August 1, 19971tornado warnings
  9. October 27, 19971tornado warnings
  10. December 27, 19971tornado warnings

Nearby

Alerts in force nowTornadoes on recordForecastThe radar archive19961998

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.