Storm Surge Watches in Florida
53 storm surge watches since 1986. 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 storm surge watches reaches back to 2005.
Storm Surge Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Storm Surge Watches
- 53
- Busiest year
- 202210 storm surge watches
- Average year
- 7over 8 years on file
Over time
By year
Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.
By month of the year
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Citrus County13
- Levy County13
- Dixie County12
- Hernando County12
- Pasco County11
- Taylor County11
- Jefferson County10
- Pinellas County10
- Wakulla County10
- Hillsborough County9
- Manatee County9
- Charlotte County8
- Lee County8
- Monroe County8
- Sarasota County8
- Franklin County8
- Collier County6
- Flagler County6
- Duval County5
- Escambia County5
- Gulf County5
- Nassau County5
- Santa Rosa County5
- Volusia County5
- Bay County3
- Miami-Dade County3
- Okaloosa County3
- Palm Beach County3
- Walton County3
- Clay County3
- Putnam County3
- Broward County2
- Brevard County2
- Indian River County1
- Martin County1
- Saint Lucie County1
Nearby
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.