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Tornado Warnings in Florida, 1988

36 tornado warnings in 1988. 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 1988. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
36
Busiest month
May10 tornado warnings
Busiest day
May 25, 19886 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
Apr 19, 8:42 AM EDTTornado WarningJAXBaker, Duval, Nassau33 min
Apr 19, 12:35 PM EDTTornado WarningMLBLake25 min
May 11, 4:11 PM EDTTornado WarningMLBBrevard, Volusia49 min
May 16, 5:20 PM EDTTornado WarningMFLMonroe40 min
May 23, 5:12 PM EDTTornado WarningMFLBroward28 min
May 24, 7:46 PM EDTTornado WarningJAXNassau29 min
May 24, 11:04 PM EDTTornado WarningTBWPasco41 min
May 24, 11:35 PM EDTTornado WarningTBWPinellas40 min
May 25, 12:03 AM EDTTornado WarningTBWHernando27 min
May 25, 12:13 AM EDTTornado WarningTBWPasco32 min
May 25, 12:29 AM EDTTornado WarningTBWCitrus61 min
May 25, 9:04 AM EDTTornado WarningMFLMiami-Dade, Monroe31 min
Jun 10, 5:40 PM EDTTornado WarningJAXBradford35 min
Jun 25, 4:38 PM EDTTornado WarningTBWHernando, Pasco67 min
Jun 25, 4:38 PM EDTTornado WarningTBWCitrus67 min
Jun 27, 9:28 PM EDTTornado WarningJAXSaint Johns32 min
Jul 10, 5:16 PM EDTTornado WarningJAXSaint Johns44 min
Jul 15, 4:28 PM EDTTornado WarningJAXPutnam32 min
Jul 19, 3:16 PM EDTTornado WarningTBWPinellas29 min
Jul 19, 3:16 PM EDTTornado WarningTBWManatee29 min
Jul 19, 8:46 PM EDTTornado WarningJAXAlachua, Gilchrist29 min
Jul 26, 6:07 PM EDTTornado WarningTAEEscambia, Santa Rosa53 min
Jul 29, 7:37 PM EDTTornado WarningTBWCitrus38 min
Sep 10, 12:27 PM EDTTornado WarningTAEOkaloosa63 min
Sep 10, 12:39 PM EDTTornado WarningTAEWalton66 min
Sep 10, 1:41 PM EDTTornado WarningTAEOkaloosa, Walton64 min
Sep 10, 4:25 PM EDTTornado WarningTAEWalton65 min
Sep 16, 2:27 PM EDTTornado WarningTAEOkaloosa, Santa Rosa63 min
Sep 16, 3:46 PM EDTTornado WarningTAEEscambia, Santa Rosa29 min
Oct 3, 1:00 PM EDTTornado WarningTAEDixie45 min
Nov 4, 1:49 AM ESTTornado WarningTBWCharlotte, Lee41 min
Nov 5, 1:52 AM ESTTornado WarningTAEBay, Walton68 min
Nov 5, 9:25 AM ESTTornado WarningTBWHillsborough, Pinellas35 min
Nov 5, 10:40 AM ESTTornado WarningTBWPolk35 min
Nov 5, 11:01 AM ESTTornado WarningTBWHernando, Pasco, Sumter59 min
Nov 5, 11:46 AM ESTTornado WarningTBWPolk44 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. May 25, 19886tornado warnings
  2. November 5, 19885tornado warnings
  3. September 10, 19884tornado warnings
  4. April 19, 19882tornado warnings
  5. June 25, 19882tornado warnings
  6. July 19, 19882tornado warnings
  7. September 16, 19882tornado warnings
  8. May 11, 19881tornado warnings
  9. May 16, 19881tornado warnings
  10. May 23, 19881tornado warnings
  11. May 24, 19881tornado warnings
  12. June 10, 19881tornado 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.