Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Watches / 2008
Tornado Watches in Florida, March 2008
6 tornado watches in March 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 March 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 6
- Busiest day
- March 7, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 10:56 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 7 hr |
| Mar 4, 4:21 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 9 more | 9 hr |
| Mar 7, 6:45 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Citrus, Clay, Columbia and 21 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 7, 11:59 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brevard, Citrus, Flagler, Hernando, Hillsborough, Lake and 12 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 7, 6:35 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brevard, Charlotte, Collier, DeSoto, Glades, Hardee and 19 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 8, 1:48 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brevard, Collier, Glades, Hendry, Indian River, Martin and 4 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Lake County3
- Volusia County3
- Brevard County3
- Osceola County3
- Escambia County2
- Okaloosa County2
- Santa Rosa County2
- Leon County2
- Wakulla County2
- Citrus County2
- Flagler County2
- Levy County2
- Marion County2
- Putnam County2
- Saint Johns County2
- Sumter County2
- Hillsborough County2
- Orange County2
- Pasco County2
- Pinellas County2
- Polk County2
- Seminole County2
- Collier County2
- Glades County2
- Hendry County2
- Indian River County2
- Martin County2
- Okeechobee County2
- Palm Beach County2
- Saint Lucie County2
- Bay County1
- Calhoun County1
- Franklin County1
- Gadsden County1
- Gulf County1
- Holmes County1
- Jackson County1
- Liberty County1
- Walton County1
- Washington County1
24 more counties
- Alachua County1
- Baker County1
- Bradford County1
- Clay County1
- Columbia County1
- Dixie County1
- Duval County1
- Gilchrist County1
- Hamilton County1
- Jefferson County1
- Lafayette County1
- Madison County1
- Nassau County1
- Suwannee County1
- Taylor County1
- Union County1
- Hernando County1
- Charlotte County1
- DeSoto County1
- Hardee County1
- Highlands County1
- Lee County1
- Manatee County1
- Sarasota 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.