Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Florida, May 1997
5 severe thunderstorm watches in May 1997. 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 severe thunderstorm watches reaches back to 1997.
Severe Thunderstorm Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- May 27, 19973 severe thunderstorm watches
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 | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 7:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Escambia, Holmes, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Walton | 6 hr |
| May 3, 12:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Dixie and 14 more | 6 hr |
| May 27, 12:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Duval, Flagler and 6 more | 6 hr |
| May 27, 12:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, Gulf, Holmes, Jackson and 4 more | 6 hr |
| May 27, 5:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Citrus, Clay, Columbia and 22 more | 4 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Baker County3
- Bradford County3
- Clay County3
- Columbia County3
- Hamilton County3
- Saint Johns County3
- Union County3
- Escambia County2
- Holmes County2
- Okaloosa County2
- Santa Rosa County2
- Walton County2
- Alachua County2
- Dixie County2
- Duval County2
- Gilchrist County2
- Jefferson County2
- Lafayette County2
- Leon County2
- Madison County2
- Nassau County2
- Suwannee County2
- Taylor County2
- Wakulla County2
- Flagler County2
- Putnam County2
- Volusia County2
- Gadsden County1
- Bay County1
- Calhoun County1
- Gulf County1
- Jackson County1
- Washington County1
- Citrus County1
- Hernando County1
- Lake County1
- Levy County1
- Marion County1
- Orange County1
- Seminole County1
1 more counties
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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.