Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Watches / 2003
Tornado Watches in Florida, October 2003
4 tornado watches in October 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 October 2003. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 4
- Busiest day
- October 26, 20032 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 26, 3:00 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Escambia | 5 hr |
| Oct 26, 7:05 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes and 6 more | 5 hr |
| Oct 28, 11:20 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Citrus, Clay, Columbia and 13 more | 6 hr |
| Oct 28, 4:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Citrus, Clay, Dixie and 12 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Escambia County2
- Alachua County2
- Baker County2
- Bradford County2
- Citrus County2
- Clay County2
- Dixie County2
- Duval County2
- Gilchrist County2
- Levy County2
- Marion County2
- Nassau County2
- Putnam County2
- Saint Johns County2
- Union County2
- Bay County1
- Calhoun County1
- Gadsden County1
- Gulf County1
- Holmes County1
- Jackson County1
- Liberty County1
- Okaloosa County1
- Santa Rosa County1
- Walton County1
- Washington County1
- Columbia County1
- Hamilton County1
- Lafayette County1
- Suwannee County1
- Taylor County1
- Flagler County1
- Hernando County1
- Pasco 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.