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Tornado Watches in Florida, 2001

22 tornado watches in 2001. 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 2001. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
22
Busiest month
March9 tornado watches
Busiest day
March 15, 20013 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 3, 10:45 AM ESTTornado WatchSPCCalhoun, Escambia, Holmes, Jackson, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa and 2 more5 hr
Mar 3, 4:00 PM ESTTornado WatchSPCCalhoun, Escambia, Holmes, Jackson, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa and 2 more6 hr
Mar 3, 9:00 PM ESTTornado WatchSPCBay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Hamilton and 8 more5 hr
Mar 12, 12:30 PM ESTTornado WatchSPCEscambia, Holmes, Jackson, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Walton and 1 more4 hr
Mar 12, 2:45 PM ESTTornado WatchSPCBaker, Bay, Calhoun, Columbia, Franklin, Gadsden and 14 more6 hr
Mar 14, 10:30 PM ESTTornado WatchSPCEscambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Walton6 hr
Mar 15, 2:30 AM ESTTornado WatchSPCBay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes and 10 more6 hr
Mar 15, 7:00 AM ESTTornado WatchSPCColumbia, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Hamilton and 8 more6 hr
Mar 20, 2:30 AM ESTTornado WatchSPCAlachua, Baker, Bradford, Citrus, Clay, Columbia and 24 more6 hr
Jun 11, 8:45 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCEscambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa5 hr
Jun 11, 1:45 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes and 10 more4 hr
Jun 11, 7:15 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBay, Calhoun, Columbia, Gadsden, Hamilton, Holmes and 11 more5 hr
Aug 5, 4:30 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBay, Calhoun, Escambia, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 7 more8 hr
Aug 5, 11:45 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes and 10 more7 hr
Aug 6, 5:00 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCBay, Calhoun, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes, Jackson and 7 more6 hr
Aug 6, 11:00 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCGadsden, Holmes, Jackson, Leon, Washington9 hr
Sep 14, 4:45 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCBrevard, Broward, Charlotte, Collier, DeSoto, Glades and 18 more6 hr
Sep 14, 11:00 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCBrevard, Clay, Duval, Flagler, Nassau, Saint Johns and 2 more6 hr
Oct 13, 3:00 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCEscambia, Holmes, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Walton5 hr
Oct 13, 7:00 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCEscambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa6 hr
Oct 13, 10:45 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gulf, Holmes, Jackson and 3 more3 hr
Nov 24, 6:45 PM ESTTornado WatchSPCBay, Calhoun, Gadsden, Holmes, Jackson, Liberty and 3 more5 hr

By county

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

24 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. March 15, 20013tornado watches
  2. June 11, 20013tornado watches
  3. August 6, 20013tornado watches
  4. March 3, 20012tornado watches
  5. March 12, 20012tornado watches
  6. September 14, 20012tornado watches
  7. October 13, 20012tornado watches
  8. March 4, 20011tornado watches
  9. March 20, 20011tornado watches
  10. August 5, 20011tornado watches
  11. October 14, 20011tornado watches
  12. November 24, 20011tornado watches

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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.