Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Watches / 1997
Tornado Watches in Florida, April 1997
12 tornado watches 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 watches reaches back to 1997.
Tornado Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in April 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 12
- Busiest day
- April 23, 19975 tornado watches
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, 7:00 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Broward, Collier, Miami-Dade, Monroe | 6 hr |
| Apr 22, 3:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Calhoun, Escambia, Holmes, Jackson, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 22, 10:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Escambia, Holmes, Jackson, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Walton and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 23, 3:00 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Bradford, Calhoun, Clay, Columbia, Dixie and 17 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 23, 8:00 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alachua, Bradford, Brevard, Citrus, Clay, Dixie and 20 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 23, 11:45 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brevard, Charlotte, DeSoto, Glades, Hardee, Hendry and 19 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 23, 5:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Broward, Charlotte, Collier, DeSoto, Glades, Hardee and 11 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 26, 8:30 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Charlotte, DeSoto, Glades, Hardee, Hernando, Highlands and 6 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 27, 3:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Escambia, Holmes, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Walton and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 27, 9:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Bay, Bradford, Calhoun, Clay, Columbia and 18 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 28, 3:00 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Bay, Calhoun, Columbia, Franklin, Gadsden and 13 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 28, 12:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brevard, Broward, Charlotte, Collier, DeSoto, Flagler and 19 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Holmes County5
- Jackson County5
- Washington County5
- Calhoun County4
- Indian River County4
- Polk County4
- Charlotte County4
- DeSoto County4
- Glades County4
- Hardee County4
- Highlands County4
- Broward County3
- Collier County3
- Escambia County3
- Okaloosa County3
- Santa Rosa County3
- Walton County3
- Baker County3
- Bradford County3
- Clay County3
- Columbia County3
- Franklin County3
- Gadsden County3
- Gulf County3
- Hamilton County3
- Jefferson County3
- Lafayette County3
- Leon County3
- Liberty County3
- Madison County3
- Nassau County3
- Suwannee County3
- Taylor County3
- Union County3
- Wakulla County3
- Brevard County3
- Hernando County3
- Hillsborough County3
- Lake County3
- Orange County3
27 more counties
- Osceola County3
- Pasco County3
- Pinellas County3
- Seminole County3
- Sumter County3
- Volusia County3
- Hendry County3
- Lee County3
- Martin County3
- Okeechobee County3
- Saint Lucie County3
- Sarasota County3
- Bay County3
- Miami-Dade County2
- Monroe County2
- Dixie County2
- Duval County2
- Gilchrist County2
- Flagler County2
- Marion County2
- Putnam County2
- Manatee County2
- Palm Beach County2
- Alachua County1
- Citrus County1
- Levy County1
- Saint Johns 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.