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Tornado Watches in Florida, 1999
14 tornado watches in 1999. 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 1999. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 14
- Busiest month
- January6 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- March 14, 19994 tornado watches
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 2, 10:00 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Escambia, Holmes, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Walton and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 2, 3:15 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Calhoun, Clay, Columbia and 18 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 2, 9:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Brevard, Citrus, Clay and 26 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 3, 12:45 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Broward, Charlotte, Collier, DeSoto, Glades, Hendry and 7 more | 5 hr |
| Jan 22, 10:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 5 hr |
| Jan 23, 2:00 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, Holmes, Jackson, Okaloosa and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 9, 2:00 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 5 hr |
| Mar 13, 5:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 5 hr |
| Mar 13, 9:15 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, Gadsden, Holmes, Jackson and 6 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 14, 3:00 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Calhoun, Columbia, Dixie and 15 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 14, 7:30 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Charlotte, Citrus, Clay and 33 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 14, 1:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brevard, Charlotte, DeSoto, Glades, Hardee, Hendry and 14 more | 5 hr |
| May 7, 3:15 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes, Jackson and 5 more | 6 hr |
| Oct 15, 8:30 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Broward, Collier, Glades, Hendry, Highlands, Martin and 5 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Okaloosa County7
- Santa Rosa County7
- Escambia County6
- Calhoun County5
- Jackson County5
- Bay County4
- Holmes County4
- Walton County4
- Washington County4
- Alachua County4
- Baker County4
- Bradford County4
- Columbia County4
- Gadsden County4
- Gilchrist County4
- Hamilton County4
- Liberty County4
- Suwannee County4
- Union County4
- Glades County4
- Hendry County4
- Highlands County4
- Okeechobee County4
- Clay County3
- Duval County3
- Gulf County3
- Lafayette County3
- Leon County3
- Saint Johns County3
- Hardee County3
- Hillsborough County3
- Lake County3
- Manatee County3
- Orange County3
- Osceola County3
- Polk County3
- Seminole County3
- Volusia County3
- Charlotte County3
- DeSoto County3
27 more counties
- Saint Lucie County3
- Franklin County2
- Jefferson County2
- Madison County2
- Nassau County2
- Taylor County2
- Wakulla County2
- Brevard County2
- Citrus County2
- Flagler County2
- Hernando County2
- Indian River County2
- Levy County2
- Marion County2
- Pasco County2
- Pinellas County2
- Putnam County2
- Sumter County2
- Broward County2
- Collier County2
- Martin County2
- Miami-Dade County2
- Monroe County2
- Palm Beach County2
- Dixie County2
- Lee County2
- Sarasota County2
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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.