Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Watches / 2002
Tornado Watches in Florida, December 2002
11 tornado watches in December 2002. 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 December 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 11
- Busiest day
- December 24, 20024 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 9, 10:20 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Broward, Charlotte, Collier, DeSoto, Glades, Hardee and 10 more | 7 hr |
| Dec 13, 6:45 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brevard, Charlotte, DeSoto, Glades, Hardee, Hendry and 11 more | 5 hr |
| Dec 13, 11:55 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Broward, Collier, Hendry, Martin, Palm Beach, Saint Lucie | 4 hr |
| Dec 19, 4:15 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Escambia, Holmes, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Walton | 6 hr |
| Dec 19, 8:20 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes and 9 more | 5 hr |
| Dec 24, 3:30 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 7 hr |
| Dec 24, 6:20 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes and 8 more | 6 hr |
| Dec 24, 9:20 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Duval and 9 more | 5 hr |
| Dec 24, 1:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alachua, Bradford, Citrus, Clay, Dixie, Flagler and 9 more | 6 hr |
| Dec 31, 3:50 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 5 hr |
| Dec 31, 8:35 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes and 6 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Okaloosa County5
- Santa Rosa County5
- Escambia County4
- Holmes County4
- Walton County4
- Hendry County3
- Bay County3
- Calhoun County3
- Gadsden County3
- Gulf County3
- Jackson County3
- Liberty County3
- Washington County3
- Broward County2
- Charlotte County2
- Collier County2
- DeSoto County2
- Glades County2
- Hardee County2
- Highlands County2
- Indian River County2
- Lee County2
- Martin County2
- Okeechobee County2
- Palm Beach County2
- Saint Lucie County2
- Lake County2
- Volusia County2
- Franklin County2
- Jefferson County2
- Leon County2
- Wakulla County2
- Alachua County2
- Bradford County2
- Clay County2
- Gilchrist County2
- Saint Johns County2
- Miami-Dade County1
- Monroe County1
- Brevard County1
23 more counties
- Orange County1
- Osceola County1
- Polk County1
- Sarasota County1
- Seminole County1
- Baker County1
- Columbia County1
- Duval County1
- Hamilton County1
- Lafayette County1
- Madison County1
- Nassau County1
- Suwannee County1
- Taylor County1
- Union County1
- Citrus County1
- Dixie County1
- Flagler County1
- Hernando County1
- Levy County1
- Marion County1
- Putnam County1
- Sumter County1
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.