Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Watches / 2001
Tornado Watches in Florida, March 2001
9 tornado watches in March 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 March 2001. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 9
- Busiest day
- March 15, 20013 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 10:45 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Calhoun, Escambia, Holmes, Jackson, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa and 2 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 3, 4:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Calhoun, Escambia, Holmes, Jackson, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 3, 9:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Hamilton and 8 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 12, 12:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Escambia, Holmes, Jackson, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Walton and 1 more | 4 hr |
| Mar 12, 2:45 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Bay, Calhoun, Columbia, Franklin, Gadsden and 14 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 14, 10:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Walton | 6 hr |
| Mar 15, 2:30 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes and 10 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 15, 7:00 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Columbia, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Hamilton and 8 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 20, 2:30 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Citrus, Clay, Columbia and 24 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Holmes County6
- Jackson County6
- Walton County6
- Washington County6
- Calhoun County5
- Okaloosa County5
- Gadsden County5
- Jefferson County5
- Leon County5
- Madison County5
- Wakulla County5
- Escambia County4
- Santa Rosa County4
- Franklin County4
- Gulf County4
- Hamilton County4
- Liberty County4
- Taylor County4
- Bay County3
- Columbia County3
- Lafayette County3
- Suwannee County3
- Baker County2
- Dixie County2
- Alachua County1
- Bradford County1
- Citrus County1
- Clay County1
- Duval County1
- Flagler County1
- Gilchrist County1
- Hernando County1
- Lake County1
- Levy County1
- Marion County1
- Nassau County1
- Putnam County1
- Saint Johns County1
- Seminole County1
- Sumter County1
2 more counties
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.