Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings / 1997

Tornado Warnings in Florida, May 1997

11 tornado warnings in May 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 May 1997. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings: 11
Busiest day: May 12, 19973 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
May 4, 4:21 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Miami-Dade	54 min
May 12, 12:10 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Collier, Hendry	60 min
May 12, 1:55 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Miami-Dade	65 min
May 12, 2:15 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Broward	60 min
May 22, 5:46 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TBW	Polk	49 min
May 22, 6:36 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TBW	Polk	44 min
May 27, 5:51 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JAX	Duval	39 min
May 27, 6:11 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JAX	Columbia	34 min
May 28, 3:00 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TBW	Polk	30 min
May 28, 5:48 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Miami-Dade	57 min
May 31, 5:16 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MFL	Broward	29 min

By county

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

Nearby

Alerts in force now Tornadoes on record The radar archive 1996 1998

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.