Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings / 1997

Tornado Warnings in Florida, October 1997

40 tornado warnings in October 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 October 1997. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
40
Busiest day
October 26, 199712 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 24, 11:38 AM EDTTornado WarningMOBSanta Rosa52 min
Oct 24, 12:18 PM EDTTornado WarningTAEBay32 min
Oct 24, 12:36 PM EDTTornado WarningTAECalhoun64 min
Oct 24, 2:38 PM EDTTornado WarningTAEGadsden, Leon47 min
Oct 24, 3:13 PM EDTTornado WarningTAELeon, Wakulla47 min
Oct 24, 6:50 PM EDTTornado WarningTBWLevy40 min
Oct 24, 7:30 PM EDTTornado WarningTBWLevy45 min
Oct 25, 3:08 PM EDTTornado WarningMOBSanta Rosa67 min
Oct 26, 6:33 AM ESTTornado WarningTAEJackson2 hr
Oct 26, 8:18 AM ESTTornado WarningTAEBay, Walton12 min
Oct 26, 8:30 AM ESTTornado WarningTAEWashington30 min
Oct 26, 9:05 AM ESTTornado WarningTAEWashington25 min
Oct 26, 9:33 AM ESTTornado WarningTAEJackson62 min
Oct 26, 10:10 AM ESTTornado WarningTAEBay50 min
Oct 26, 10:20 AM ESTTornado WarningTAEHolmes40 min
Oct 26, 10:36 AM ESTTornado WarningTAEJackson39 min
Oct 26, 11:05 AM ESTTornado WarningTAEBay40 min
Oct 26, 11:36 AM ESTTornado WarningTAEJackson54 min
Oct 26, 11:48 AM ESTTornado WarningTAECalhoun42 min
Oct 26, 6:26 PM ESTTornado WarningTAEWakulla49 min
Oct 26, 7:59 PM ESTTornado WarningJAXHamilton61 min
Oct 27, 8:34 AM ESTTornado WarningTBWPinellas26 min
Oct 27, 9:00 AM ESTTornado WarningTBWHillsborough30 min
Oct 27, 9:15 AM ESTTornado WarningTBWPolk45 min
Oct 27, 9:37 AM ESTTornado WarningMLBLake43 min
Oct 27, 9:53 AM ESTTornado WarningMLBOrange62 min
Oct 27, 9:59 AM ESTTornado WarningMLBSeminole61 min
Oct 27, 10:07 AM ESTTornado WarningMLBOsceola58 min
Oct 31, 11:36 AM ESTTornado WarningTBWManatee, Sarasota29 min
Oct 31, 12:48 PM ESTTornado WarningTBWManatee47 min
Oct 31, 1:56 PM ESTTornado WarningTBWHillsborough29 min
Oct 31, 2:09 PM ESTTornado WarningTBWPolk46 min
Oct 31, 2:50 PM ESTTornado WarningTBWPolk45 min
Oct 31, 3:34 PM ESTTornado WarningMLBOsceola41 min
Oct 31, 4:08 PM ESTTornado WarningMLBOsceola57 min
Oct 31, 4:47 PM ESTTornado WarningMLBSeminole43 min
Oct 31, 5:14 PM ESTTornado WarningMLBBrevard61 min
Oct 31, 5:15 PM ESTTornado WarningMLBBrevard55 min
Oct 31, 5:25 PM ESTTornado WarningMLBSeminole60 min
Oct 31, 5:46 PM ESTTornado WarningMLBVolusia64 min

By county

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

Nearby

Alerts in force nowTornadoes on recordThe radar archive19961998

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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.