Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Watches / 2003
Tornado Watches in Florida, February 2003
6 tornado watches in February 2003. 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 February 2003. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 6
- Busiest day
- February 22, 20035 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 21, 9:15 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 6 hr |
| Feb 22, 12:40 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes, Jackson and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 22, 1:35 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Escambia, Holmes, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Walton | 5 hr |
| Feb 22, 6:50 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 11 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 22, 11:55 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Duval and 6 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 27, 5:55 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Dixie and 13 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Escambia County2
- Okaloosa County2
- Santa Rosa County2
- Bay County2
- Calhoun County2
- Gadsden County2
- Gulf County2
- Holmes County2
- Jackson County2
- Liberty County2
- Walton County2
- Washington County2
- Dixie County2
- Hamilton County2
- Lafayette County2
- Madison County2
- Suwannee County2
- Taylor County2
- Alachua County2
- Baker County2
- Bradford County2
- Clay County2
- Columbia County2
- Duval County2
- Gilchrist County2
- Nassau County2
- Putnam County2
- Saint Johns County2
- Union County2
- Franklin County1
- Jefferson County1
- Leon County1
- Wakulla County1
- Flagler County1
- Levy County1
- Marion 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.