Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings / 1997
Tornado Warnings in Florida, April 1997
49 tornado warnings in April 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 tornado warnings reaches back to 1986.
Tornado Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in April 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 49
- Busiest day
- April 23, 199721 tornado warnings
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 12, 6:14 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MFL | Collier, Monroe | 61 min |
| Apr 14, 3:10 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MFL | Collier | 65 min |
| Apr 14, 4:14 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MFL | Collier | 61 min |
| Apr 23, 4:59 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Nassau | 31 min |
| Apr 23, 7:57 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Clay, Putnam | 33 min |
| Apr 23, 8:08 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Levy | 52 min |
| Apr 23, 8:13 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Alachua | 47 min |
| Apr 23, 8:31 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Bradford, Clay | 59 min |
| Apr 23, 8:40 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MLB | Volusia | 45 min |
| Apr 23, 9:22 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MLB | Volusia | 33 min |
| Apr 23, 9:30 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Hernando | 45 min |
| Apr 23, 9:34 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Citrus | 41 min |
| Apr 23, 9:50 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Sumter | 40 min |
| Apr 23, 9:56 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Marion | 64 min |
| Apr 23, 10:10 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MLB | Volusia | 45 min |
| Apr 23, 10:17 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MLB | Lake, Orange | 63 min |
| Apr 23, 10:29 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MLB | Volusia | 66 min |
| Apr 23, 10:38 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MLB | Seminole | 57 min |
| Apr 23, 11:03 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Pasco, Pinellas | 42 min |
| Apr 23, 11:35 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Hillsborough | 40 min |
| Apr 23, 11:44 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MLB | Orange | 61 min |
| Apr 23, 12:26 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Hillsborough | 49 min |
| Apr 23, 1:20 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MLB | Indian River | 50 min |
| Apr 23, 2:33 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Sarasota | 42 min |
| Apr 26, 5:01 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Hillsborough, Pinellas | 44 min |
| Apr 26, 7:23 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Pinellas | 67 min |
| Apr 26, 7:49 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Hillsborough | 56 min |
| Apr 26, 10:21 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Manatee | 54 min |
| Apr 26, 11:20 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Polk | 55 min |
| Apr 26, 2:25 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MFL | Miami-Dade | 65 min |
| Apr 26, 3:29 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MFL | Miami-Dade | 31 min |
| Apr 26, 3:58 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MFL | Miami-Dade | 47 min |
| Apr 28, 11:00 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Duval | 45 min |
| Apr 28, 11:08 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Nassau | 52 min |
| Apr 28, 11:50 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Hillsborough | 25 min |
| Apr 28, 12:11 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Pasco | 34 min |
| Apr 28, 12:20 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Polk | 40 min |
| Apr 28, 1:02 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Hardee, Polk | 43 min |
| Apr 28, 1:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MLB | Osceola | 42 min |
| Apr 28, 1:15 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | DeSoto, Hardee | 45 min |
| Apr 28, 1:33 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MLB | Orange | 62 min |
| Apr 28, 1:37 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Charlotte, Lee | 53 min |
| Apr 28, 1:39 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Highlands | 66 min |
| Apr 28, 1:46 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Polk | 59 min |
| Apr 28, 2:07 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MLB | Osceola | 53 min |
| Apr 28, 2:10 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MLB | Seminole | 45 min |
| Apr 28, 2:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MLB | Volusia | 62 min |
| Apr 28, 2:33 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MLB | Brevard | 62 min |
| Apr 28, 3:12 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MLB | Indian River | 63 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Volusia County5
- Hillsborough County5
- Polk County4
- Collier County3
- Orange County3
- Pinellas County3
- Miami-Dade County3
- Nassau County2
- Clay County2
- Seminole County2
- Pasco County2
- Indian River County2
- Hardee County2
- Osceola County2
- Monroe County1
- Putnam County1
- Levy County1
- Alachua County1
- Bradford County1
- Hernando County1
- Citrus County1
- Sumter County1
- Marion County1
- Lake County1
- Sarasota County1
- Manatee County1
- Duval County1
- DeSoto County1
- Charlotte County1
- Lee County1
- Highlands County1
- Brevard County1
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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.