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Tornado Warnings in Florida, 1986

40 tornado warnings in 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 tornado warnings reaches back to 1986.

Tornado Warnings by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 1986. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
40
Busiest month
March12 tornado warnings
Busiest day
March 14, 19868 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 7, 3:35 PM ESTTornado WarningMFLMiami-Dade55 min
Feb 8, 8:35 AM ESTTornado WarningTBWHernando25 min
Feb 8, 8:55 AM ESTTornado WarningTBWCitrus, Hernando35 min
Feb 8, 9:05 AM ESTTornado WarningTBWSumter40 min
Feb 8, 10:00 AM ESTTornado WarningMLBMarion60 min
Feb 8, 11:10 AM ESTTornado WarningMLBMarion50 min
Feb 10, 5:20 PM ESTTornado WarningTAEEscambia, Santa Rosa60 min
Mar 14, 6:45 AM ESTTornado WarningJAXAlachua, Bradford, Clay45 min
Mar 14, 8:05 AM ESTTornado WarningMLBLake60 min
Mar 14, 8:43 AM ESTTornado WarningMLBVolusia47 min
Mar 14, 8:43 AM ESTTornado WarningMLBFlagler35 min
Mar 14, 8:45 AM ESTTornado WarningMLBLake, Seminole60 min
Mar 14, 9:05 AM ESTTornado WarningTBWPolk25 min
Mar 14, 10:35 AM ESTTornado WarningTBWSarasota25 min
Mar 14, 2:51 PM ESTTornado WarningMFLBroward69 min
Mar 15, 3:00 PM ESTTornado WarningMLBPalm Beach30 min
Mar 16, 8:55 AM ESTTornado WarningTBWSumter35 min
Mar 26, 10:02 PM ESTTornado WarningMFLMiami-Dade103 min
Mar 26, 11:02 PM ESTTornado WarningMFLBroward, Miami-Dade103 min
Apr 13, 7:00 AM ESTTornado WarningMFLMonroe2 hr
May 14, 5:40 PM EDTTornado WarningTBWHernando35 min
May 19, 9:20 AM EDTTornado WarningTAEFranklin40 min
May 20, 3:38 PM EDTTornado WarningMLBOrange52 min
Jun 7, 7:53 AM EDTTornado WarningMFLMiami-Dade67 min
Jun 11, 11:27 AM EDTTornado WarningTBWCitrus28 min
Jun 12, 6:24 PM EDTTornado WarningMFLBroward36 min
Jun 13, 6:04 PM EDTTornado WarningJAXAlachua71 min
Jun 15, 1:01 PM EDTTornado WarningMFLMiami-Dade59 min
Jun 21, 6:01 AM EDTTornado WarningMFLMonroe119 min
Jun 26, 2:45 PM EDTTornado WarningMLBPalm Beach45 min
Jul 7, 7:29 PM EDTTornado WarningTBWPinellas26 min
Jul 21, 4:40 PM EDTTornado WarningTAELeon40 min
Jul 31, 7:30 PM EDTTornado WarningJAXAlachua, Putnam45 min
Jul 31, 7:42 PM EDTTornado WarningMLBMarion58 min
Jul 31, 8:42 PM EDTTornado WarningMLBMarion33 min
Aug 5, 8:14 AM EDTTornado WarningTAEFranklin46 min
Aug 10, 7:26 PM EDTTornado WarningTBWPinellas64 min
Aug 28, 2:35 PM EDTTornado WarningMLBMartin60 min
Sep 8, 2:27 PM EDTTornado WarningMFLBroward63 min
Sep 10, 7:25 PM EDTTornado WarningTBWHillsborough20 min

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. March 14, 19868tornado warnings
  2. February 8, 19865tornado warnings
  3. March 27, 19862tornado warnings
  4. July 31, 19862tornado warnings
  5. February 7, 19861tornado warnings
  6. February 10, 19861tornado warnings
  7. March 15, 19861tornado warnings
  8. March 16, 19861tornado warnings
  9. April 13, 19861tornado warnings
  10. May 14, 19861tornado warnings
  11. May 19, 19861tornado warnings
  12. May 20, 19861tornado warnings

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. Rebuilt daily.