Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Watches / 2009
Tornado Watches in Florida, December 2009
10 tornado watches in December 2009. 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 December 2009. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 10
- Busiest day
- December 2, 20093 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 2, 4:11 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 9 more | 6 hr |
| Dec 2, 10:32 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Columbia, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gilchrist, Hamilton and 8 more | 6 hr |
| Dec 2, 2:46 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Citrus, Clay, Columbia and 14 more | 7 hr |
| Dec 2, 7:44 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brevard, Citrus, Clay, DeSoto, Flagler, Hardee and 16 more | 8 hr |
| Dec 5, 12:48 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Broward, Collier, Hendry, Martin, Miami-Dade, Monroe and 2 more | 8 hr |
| Dec 5, 8:57 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Broward, Collier, Glades, Hendry, Indian River, Martin and 5 more | 4 hr |
| Dec 9, 4:32 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Holmes, Walton | 5 hr |
| Dec 18, 7:19 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Broward, Charlotte, Collier, Glades, Hendry, Lee and 6 more | 7 hr |
| Dec 24, 6:37 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 9 more | 9 hr |
| Dec 25, 3:46 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Columbia, Dixie, Gilchrist and 8 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Franklin County3
- Gadsden County3
- Holmes County3
- Leon County3
- Liberty County3
- Wakulla County3
- Walton County3
- Columbia County3
- Gilchrist County3
- Hamilton County3
- Suwannee County3
- Broward County3
- Collier County3
- Hendry County3
- Martin County3
- Miami-Dade County3
- Monroe County3
- Palm Beach County3
- Saint Lucie County3
- Bay County2
- Calhoun County2
- Escambia County2
- Gulf County2
- Jackson County2
- Okaloosa County2
- Santa Rosa County2
- Washington County2
- Dixie County2
- Jefferson County2
- Lafayette County2
- Madison County2
- Taylor County2
- Alachua County2
- Baker County2
- Bradford County2
- Citrus County2
- Clay County2
- Flagler County2
- Hernando County2
- Levy County2
26 more counties
- Marion County2
- Pasco County2
- Putnam County2
- Saint Johns County2
- Sumter County2
- Union County2
- Glades County2
- Okeechobee County2
- Duval County1
- Nassau County1
- Brevard County1
- DeSoto County1
- Hardee County1
- Hillsborough County1
- Lake County1
- Manatee County1
- Orange County1
- Osceola County1
- Pinellas County1
- Polk County1
- Sarasota County1
- Seminole County1
- Volusia County1
- Indian River County1
- Charlotte County1
- Lee 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.