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Tornado Warnings in Florida, 2003

93 tornado warnings in 2003. 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 2003. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
93
Busiest month
March35 tornado warnings
Busiest day
March 27, 200313 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 16, 5:17 AM ESTTornado WarningTAEWashington28 min
Feb 16, 5:49 AM ESTTornado WarningTAEJackson, Washington26 min
Feb 16, 6:21 AM ESTTornado WarningTAEJackson24 min
Feb 22, 8:35 PM ESTTornado WarningMFLCollier, Hendry25 min
Feb 27, 5:08 AM ESTTornado WarningTAEFranklin37 min
Mar 9, 9:09 AM ESTTornado WarningTAEWalton51 min
Mar 9, 3:59 PM ESTTornado WarningTBWHernando, Sumter31 min
Mar 9, 4:20 PM ESTTornado WarningMLBLake40 min
Mar 9, 7:44 PM ESTTornado WarningTBWSarasota31 min
Mar 13, 7:45 AM ESTTornado WarningJAXSaint Johns30 min
Mar 13, 12:58 PM ESTTornado WarningJAXDuval32 min
Mar 17, 1:39 AM ESTTornado WarningMFLMonroe66 min
Mar 17, 4:11 AM ESTTornado WarningMOBEscambia34 min
Mar 17, 1:43 PM ESTTornado WarningMFLMiami-Dade62 min
Mar 17, 4:07 PM ESTTornado WarningMLBBrevard38 min
Mar 18, 7:23 PM ESTTornado WarningMOBOkaloosa37 min
Mar 18, 8:02 PM ESTTornado WarningMOBOkaloosa28 min
Mar 19, 12:10 AM ESTTornado WarningTAEJefferson35 min
Mar 19, 12:40 AM ESTTornado WarningTAEJefferson, Madison35 min
Mar 19, 1:08 AM ESTTornado WarningTAEMadison37 min
Mar 19, 6:43 PM ESTTornado WarningMLBVolusia32 min
Mar 19, 7:13 PM ESTTornado WarningMLBVolusia32 min
Mar 19, 7:44 PM ESTTornado WarningMLBVolusia31 min
Mar 20, 12:15 AM ESTTornado WarningTAEWalton45 min
Mar 20, 2:37 AM ESTTornado WarningTAEBay38 min
Mar 20, 3:19 AM ESTTornado WarningTAEBay, Calhoun, Jackson41 min
Mar 20, 3:56 AM ESTTornado WarningTAEJackson49 min
Mar 27, 2:27 PM ESTTornado WarningMFLCollier63 min
Mar 27, 2:37 PM ESTTornado WarningMFLHendry, Palm Beach53 min
Mar 27, 2:37 PM ESTTornado WarningTBWLee23 min
Mar 27, 2:40 PM ESTTornado WarningMFLHendry, Palm Beach50 min
Mar 27, 2:42 PM ESTTornado WarningTBWLevy48 min
Mar 27, 2:50 PM ESTTornado WarningMFLHendry55 min
Mar 27, 3:08 PM ESTTornado WarningTBWPasco22 min
Mar 27, 3:12 PM ESTTornado WarningMFLMiami-Dade48 min
Mar 27, 3:27 PM ESTTornado WarningMFLPalm Beach63 min
Mar 27, 3:58 PM ESTTornado WarningMFLBroward, Miami-Dade62 min
Mar 27, 4:19 PM ESTTornado WarningMFLPalm Beach56 min
Mar 27, 4:59 PM ESTTornado WarningMFLBroward, Miami-Dade61 min
Mar 27, 5:54 PM ESTTornado WarningMFLMiami-Dade21 min
Apr 7, 5:20 PM EDTTornado WarningTAEWalton25 min
Apr 8, 1:56 AM EDTTornado WarningTAEBay, Jackson34 min
Apr 8, 3:40 AM EDTTornado WarningTAECalhoun, Liberty35 min
Apr 8, 11:35 AM EDTTornado WarningTAEBay, Gulf55 min
Apr 18, 5:09 PM EDTTornado WarningMFLBroward, Palm Beach21 min
Apr 25, 5:28 AM EDTTornado WarningMOBOkaloosa, Santa Rosa32 min
Apr 25, 5:41 AM EDTTornado WarningTAEWalton49 min
Apr 25, 5:59 AM EDTTornado WarningMOBOkaloosa31 min
Apr 25, 6:28 AM EDTTornado WarningTAEWalton32 min
Apr 25, 2:01 PM EDTTornado WarningTAEDixie29 min
Apr 25, 3:13 PM EDTTornado WarningJAXAlachua32 min
May 2, 6:31 PM EDTTornado WarningMOBEscambia59 min
May 19, 2:45 PM EDTTornado WarningTBWPinellas30 min
May 19, 7:53 PM EDTTornado WarningMLBOkeechobee22 min
May 24, 4:18 PM EDTTornado WarningMFLMiami-Dade57 min
May 27, 5:06 PM EDTTornado WarningMFLBroward, Palm Beach54 min
Jun 6, 3:19 PM EDTTornado WarningMOBOkaloosa26 min
Jun 12, 8:02 PM EDTTornado WarningMOBEscambia13 min
Jun 18, 11:46 AM EDTTornado WarningTBWManatee29 min
Jun 20, 4:59 PM EDTTornado WarningTBWPinellas31 min
Jun 23, 4:34 PM EDTTornado WarningTBWPasco26 min
Jun 27, 4:31 PM EDTTornado WarningMLBOkeechobee29 min
Jun 29, 6:48 PM EDTTornado WarningTBWPasco12 min
Jun 30, 11:00 PM EDTTornado WarningMOBSanta Rosa30 min
Jul 1, 2:28 AM EDTTornado WarningTAEWashington32 min
Jul 1, 8:56 AM EDTTornado WarningTAEWalton34 min
Jul 1, 10:06 AM EDTTornado WarningTAEWalton24 min
Jul 1, 10:26 AM EDTTornado WarningMOBOkaloosa34 min
Jul 8, 6:29 PM EDTTornado WarningTBWHillsborough31 min
Jul 24, 3:06 PM EDTTornado WarningJAXDuval24 min
Jul 25, 4:28 PM EDTTornado WarningJAXAlachua, Marion47 min
Jul 25, 7:59 PM EDTTornado WarningMLBOkeechobee31 min
Aug 3, 2:14 PM EDTTornado WarningMFLPalm Beach61 min
Aug 6, 2:30 PM EDTTornado WarningMLBBrevard30 min
Aug 7, 5:32 PM EDTTornado WarningMFLPalm Beach28 min
Aug 8, 3:13 PM EDTTornado WarningMFLPalm Beach47 min
Aug 9, 2:00 PM EDTTornado WarningMFLBroward, Palm Beach30 min
Aug 9, 3:08 PM EDTTornado WarningMLBIndian River22 min
Aug 9, 3:26 PM EDTTornado WarningMFLPalm Beach64 min
Aug 12, 5:29 PM EDTTornado WarningTAEGadsden, Leon31 min
Aug 14, 7:38 AM EDTTornado WarningMLBMartin22 min
Aug 18, 5:35 PM EDTTornado WarningMLBOrange, Osceola40 min
Aug 25, 5:13 PM EDTTornado WarningTBW32 min
Aug 25, 5:15 PM EDTTornado WarningTBW30 min
Sep 4, 2:57 PM EDTTornado WarningMFLPalm Beach63 min
Sep 5, 12:58 PM EDTTornado WarningMFLMiami-Dade32 min
Sep 5, 2:32 PM EDTTornado WarningMFLPalm Beach43 min
Sep 6, 7:10 AM EDTTornado WarningTBWPasco35 min
Oct 7, 6:53 PM EDTTornado WarningTAEFranklin, Gulf22 min
Oct 28, 2:17 PM ESTTornado WarningJAXColumbia28 min
Oct 29, 1:14 AM ESTTornado WarningMFLCollier, Monroe16 min
Nov 4, 1:31 AM ESTTornado WarningMLBMartin29 min
Nov 4, 5:15 PM ESTTornado WarningMFLMiami-Dade60 min

By county

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

4 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. March 27, 200313tornado warnings
  2. March 19, 20036tornado warnings
  3. March 20, 20036tornado warnings
  4. April 25, 20036tornado warnings
  5. July 1, 20035tornado warnings
  6. March 17, 20034tornado warnings
  7. February 16, 20033tornado warnings
  8. March 9, 20033tornado warnings
  9. April 8, 20033tornado warnings
  10. August 9, 20033tornado warnings
  11. March 13, 20032tornado warnings
  12. May 19, 20032tornado 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.