Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Watches / 1998
Tornado Watches in Florida, February 1998
17 tornado watches in February 1998. 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 February 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 17
- Busiest day
- February 16, 19984 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 2, 2:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Broward, Charlotte, Citrus, Collier, DeSoto, Glades and 16 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 2, 8:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Broward, Charlotte, Citrus, Collier, DeSoto, Glades and 19 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 15, 6:15 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brevard, Broward, Charlotte, Citrus, Collier, DeSoto and 24 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 16, 8:30 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alachua, Citrus, Dixie, Hernando, Hillsborough, Levy and 4 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 16, 1:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brevard, Citrus, Flagler, Hardee, Hernando, Hillsborough and 13 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 16, 1:15 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Calhoun, Escambia, Holmes, Jackson, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 16, 6:15 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Citrus, Clay, Columbia and 18 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 16, 7:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, Gulf, Holmes, Jackson and 4 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 16, 11:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Citrus, Clay, Columbia and 20 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 17, 3:30 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brevard, Charlotte, DeSoto, Hardee, Highlands, Hillsborough and 13 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 19, 4:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Broward, Charlotte, DeSoto, Glades, Hardee, Hendry and 13 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 19, 9:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brevard, Charlotte, DeSoto, Glades, Hardee, Highlands and 13 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 20, 3:00 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brevard, Charlotte, Collier, DeSoto, Glades, Hardee and 12 more | 4 hr |
| Feb 22, 8:30 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 14 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 22, 2:15 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brevard, Citrus, DeSoto, Flagler, Hardee, Hernando and 18 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 22, 9:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brevard, Citrus, DeSoto, Flagler, Hardee, Hernando and 18 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 26, 8:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Escambia, Holmes, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Walton and 1 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Manatee County11
- Pasco County11
- Hardee County10
- Hillsborough County10
- Polk County10
- Sarasota County10
- Citrus County9
- DeSoto County9
- Hernando County9
- Highlands County9
- Okeechobee County9
- Pinellas County9
- Sumter County9
- Indian River County8
- Osceola County8
- Charlotte County7
- Saint Lucie County7
- Brevard County7
- Glades County6
- Lake County6
- Orange County6
- Seminole County6
- Levy County6
- Hendry County5
- Martin County5
- Palm Beach County5
- Marion County5
- Broward County4
- Collier County4
- Lee County4
- Dixie County4
- Flagler County4
- Volusia County4
- Holmes County4
- Walton County4
- Washington County4
- Miami-Dade County3
- Monroe County3
- Alachua County3
- Calhoun County3
27 more counties
- Escambia County3
- Jackson County3
- Okaloosa County3
- Santa Rosa County3
- Hamilton County3
- Jefferson County3
- Lafayette County3
- Madison County3
- Suwannee County3
- Taylor County3
- Wakulla County3
- Bay County3
- Putnam County2
- Baker County2
- Bradford County2
- Clay County2
- Columbia County2
- Franklin County2
- Gadsden County2
- Gilchrist County2
- Leon County2
- Liberty County2
- Nassau County2
- Union County2
- Gulf County2
- Duval 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.