Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Watches / 2008
Tornado Watches in Florida, February 2008
12 tornado watches in February 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 February 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 12
- Busiest day
- February 17, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 6, 6:04 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 5 hr |
| Feb 6, 8:06 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Holmes, Jackson, Walton, Washington | 6 hr |
| Feb 12, 1:34 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, Franklin, Gulf, Holmes and 6 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 12, 3:18 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alachua, Bradford, Brevard, Broward, Charlotte, Citrus and 34 more | 8 hr |
| Feb 12, 8:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 11 more | 4 hr |
| Feb 12, 10:20 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brevard, Broward, Charlotte, Citrus, Collier, DeSoto and 30 more | 9 hr |
| Feb 17, 6:26 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 7 hr |
| Feb 17, 1:32 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 7 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 17, 6:58 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Jackson and 6 more | 8 hr |
| Feb 18, 2:57 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Columbia, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gilchrist and 11 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 26, 11:00 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Dixie and 18 more | 9 hr |
| Feb 26, 3:41 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brevard, Citrus, DeSoto, Hardee, Hernando, Highlands and 14 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Franklin County6
- Bay County5
- Calhoun County5
- Jackson County5
- Gulf County5
- Liberty County5
- Escambia County4
- Okaloosa County4
- Santa Rosa County4
- Holmes County4
- Walton County4
- Washington County4
- Gadsden County4
- Jefferson County4
- Leon County4
- Madison County4
- Taylor County4
- Wakulla County4
- Brevard County3
- Citrus County3
- DeSoto County3
- Flagler County3
- Hardee County3
- Hernando County3
- Highlands County3
- Hillsborough County3
- Indian River County3
- Lake County3
- Levy County3
- Manatee County3
- Marion County3
- Okeechobee County3
- Orange County3
- Osceola County3
- Pasco County3
- Pinellas County3
- Polk County3
- Putnam County3
- Saint Johns County3
- Sarasota County3
27 more counties
- Seminole County3
- Sumter County3
- Volusia County3
- Dixie County3
- Lafayette County3
- Alachua County2
- Bradford County2
- Broward County2
- Charlotte County2
- Clay County2
- Collier County2
- Duval County2
- Glades County2
- Hendry County2
- Lee County2
- Martin County2
- Miami-Dade County2
- Monroe County2
- Palm Beach County2
- Saint Lucie County2
- Baker County2
- Columbia County2
- Gilchrist County2
- Hamilton County2
- Suwannee County2
- Union County2
- Nassau County1
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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.