Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Watches / 2008
Tornado Watches in Florida, August 2008
15 tornado watches in August 2008. 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 August 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 15
- Busiest day
- August 19, 20083 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 3:21 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 8 hr |
| Aug 13, 4:02 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bay, Bradford, Calhoun, Columbia and 20 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 13, 11:00 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Calhoun, Columbia, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden and 13 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 18, 12:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Broward, Collier, Glades, Hendry, Miami-Dade, Monroe and 1 more | 10 hr |
| Aug 18, 10:44 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brevard, Broward, Charlotte, Collier, DeSoto, Glades and 13 more | 9 hr |
| Aug 19, 7:05 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brevard, Broward, Charlotte, Collier, DeSoto, Glades and 16 more | 9 hr |
| Aug 19, 3:46 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brevard, Flagler, Indian River, Orange, Osceola, Putnam and 3 more | 9 hr |
| Aug 22, 10:48 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Clay, Duval, Nassau, Saint Johns | 11 hr |
| Aug 23, 7:18 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alachua, Citrus, Columbia, Dixie, Gilchrist, Hamilton and 10 more | 8 hr |
| Aug 23, 5:24 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dixie, Gadsden, Jefferson, Lafayette, Leon, Madison and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 25, 2:10 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Escambia, Holmes, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Walton and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 25, 8:28 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 7 more | 13 hr |
| Aug 26, 2:36 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes, Jackson and 4 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 26, 10:00 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Jackson, Jefferson and 4 more | 9 hr |
| Aug 30, 5:05 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Monroe | 9 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Gadsden County6
- Calhoun County5
- Gulf County5
- Jefferson County5
- Leon County5
- Liberty County5
- Madison County5
- Wakulla County5
- Okaloosa County4
- Bay County4
- Dixie County4
- Franklin County4
- Holmes County4
- Jackson County4
- Lafayette County4
- Taylor County4
- Walton County4
- Washington County4
- Escambia County3
- Santa Rosa County3
- Baker County3
- Columbia County3
- Gilchrist County3
- Hamilton County3
- Suwannee County3
- Broward County3
- Collier County3
- Glades County3
- Hendry County3
- Miami-Dade County3
- Monroe County3
- Palm Beach County3
- Brevard County3
- Indian River County3
- Osceola County3
- Alachua County2
- Levy County2
- Union County2
- Nassau County2
- Charlotte County2
21 more counties
- DeSoto County2
- Hardee County2
- Highlands County2
- Lee County2
- Martin County2
- Okeechobee County2
- Polk County2
- Saint Lucie County2
- Orange County2
- Seminole County2
- Volusia County2
- Saint Johns County2
- Bradford County1
- Lake County1
- Flagler County1
- Putnam County1
- Clay County1
- Duval County1
- Citrus County1
- Hernando County1
- Marion County1
Nearby
Alerts in force nowTornadoes on recordThe radar archive20072009
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.