Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Florida, May 1998
6 severe thunderstorm watches in May 1998. 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 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 6
- Busiest day
- May 3, 19982 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, 2:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Nassau | 5 hr |
| May 3, 4:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Gadsden | 6 hr |
| May 3, 8:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Calhoun, Escambia, Holmes, Jackson, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa and 2 more | 6 hr |
| May 4, 1:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Calhoun, Escambia, Gadsden, Holmes, Jackson, Leon and 4 more | 6 hr |
| May 5, 11:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brevard, Charlotte, Citrus, DeSoto, Glades, Hardee and 19 more | 6 hr |
| May 18, 2:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Brevard, Charlotte, Citrus and 28 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Nassau County2
- Gadsden County2
- Calhoun County2
- Escambia County2
- Holmes County2
- Jackson County2
- Okaloosa County2
- Santa Rosa County2
- Walton County2
- Washington County2
- Brevard County2
- Charlotte County2
- Citrus County2
- DeSoto County2
- Hardee County2
- Hernando County2
- Highlands County2
- Hillsborough County2
- Indian River County2
- Lake County2
- Okeechobee County2
- Orange County2
- Osceola County2
- Pasco County2
- Polk County2
- Saint Lucie County2
- Seminole County2
- Sumter County2
- Leon County1
- Glades County1
- Hendry County1
- Lee County1
- Manatee County1
- Martin County1
- Palm Beach County1
- Sarasota County1
- Alachua County1
- Baker County1
- Bradford County1
- Clay County1
Nearby
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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.