Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Watches / 1998
Tornado Watches in Florida, September 1998
13 tornado watches in September 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 September 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 13
- Busiest day
- September 29, 19983 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 3:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alachua, Bay, Bradford, Calhoun, Citrus, Clay and 32 more | 8 hr |
| Sep 2, 10:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Dixie and 17 more | 13 hr |
| Sep 25, 6:15 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Broward, Charlotte, Collier, DeSoto, Glades, Hendry and 9 more | 7 hr |
| Sep 25, 11:00 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brevard, Broward, Charlotte, Citrus, Collier, DeSoto and 23 more | 12 hr |
| Sep 25, 11:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Charlotte, Collier, DeSoto, Glades, Hardee, Hendry and 8 more | 6 hr |
| Sep 27, 2:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, Gulf, Holmes, Jackson and 4 more | 12 hr |
| Sep 28, 2:00 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, Holmes, Jackson, Okaloosa and 3 more | 12 hr |
| Sep 28, 2:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, Holmes, Jackson, Okaloosa and 3 more | 12 hr |
| Sep 28, 11:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes and 9 more | 12 hr |
| Sep 29, 11:00 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 9 more | 9 hr |
| Sep 29, 7:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Dixie and 15 more | 10 hr |
| Sep 30, 5:00 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Dixie and 8 more | 5 hr |
| Sep 30, 1:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Duval, Flagler and 6 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Bay County6
- Calhoun County6
- Holmes County6
- Jackson County6
- Washington County6
- Alachua County5
- Bradford County5
- Clay County5
- Dixie County5
- Jefferson County5
- Leon County5
- Putnam County5
- Union County5
- Wakulla County5
- Columbia County4
- Gadsden County4
- Gilchrist County4
- Gulf County4
- Lafayette County4
- Madison County4
- Saint Johns County4
- Suwannee County4
- Taylor County4
- Baker County4
- Duval County4
- Nassau County4
- Escambia County4
- Okaloosa County4
- Santa Rosa County4
- Walton County4
- Flagler County3
- Hillsborough County3
- Levy County3
- Liberty County3
- Marion County3
- Polk County3
- Hamilton County3
- Charlotte County3
- Collier County3
- DeSoto County3
27 more counties
- Glades County3
- Hendry County3
- Highlands County3
- Lee County3
- Monroe County3
- Sarasota County3
- Citrus County2
- Franklin County2
- Hernando County2
- Lake County2
- Orange County2
- Pasco County2
- Pinellas County2
- Sumter County2
- Broward County2
- Martin County2
- Miami-Dade County2
- Okeechobee County2
- Palm Beach County2
- Saint Lucie County2
- Hardee County2
- Manatee County2
- Volusia County1
- Brevard County1
- Indian River County1
- Osceola County1
- Seminole 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.