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Tornado Watches in Florida, 2012
29 tornado watches in 2012. 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 2012. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 29
- Busiest month
- February5 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- January 26, 20123 tornado watches
Over time
By month
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 26, 5:18 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 7 hr |
| Jan 26, 10:55 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, Gulf, Holmes, Jackson and 4 more | 7 hr |
| Jan 26, 4:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Jefferson, Lafayette, Leon and 4 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 18, 12:49 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 5 hr |
| Feb 18, 3:58 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes and 4 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 18, 5:48 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 4 hr |
| Feb 18, 8:24 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Bay, Calhoun, Columbia, Franklin, Gadsden and 14 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 24, 12:04 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes and 8 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 2, 5:37 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Escambia, Holmes, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Walton | 7 hr |
| Mar 2, 11:56 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Escambia | 6 hr |
| Mar 3, 7:35 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Hamilton and 9 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 3, 1:04 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Calhoun, Clay, Columbia and 17 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 21, 11:08 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brevard, Broward, Charlotte, Citrus, Collier, DeSoto and 21 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 10, 12:41 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes and 7 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 24, 11:47 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Broward, Charlotte, Citrus, Collier, DeSoto, Glades and 16 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 24, 7:46 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alachua, Brevard, Charlotte, Citrus, Collier, DeSoto and 28 more | 9 hr |
| Jun 25, 4:37 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alachua, Brevard, Charlotte, Citrus, Collier, DeSoto and 35 more | 9 hr |
| Jun 25, 1:48 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Brevard, Charlotte, Citrus and 45 more | 9 hr |
| Aug 26, 8:29 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Broward, Charlotte, Collier, DeSoto, Glades, Hendry and 9 more | 9 hr |
| Aug 26, 11:24 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brevard, Broward, Charlotte, Collier, DeSoto, Glades and 17 more | 12 hr |
| Aug 28, 10:46 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Escambia, Holmes, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Walton and 1 more | 9 hr |
| Aug 28, 7:47 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Escambia, Gulf, Holmes, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa and 2 more | 21 hr |
| Aug 30, 8:13 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 9 hr |
| Sep 30, 6:50 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 8 hr |
| Dec 17, 1:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Columbia, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Hamilton and 8 more | 5 hr |
| Dec 20, 5:23 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 9 hr |
| Dec 20, 10:19 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 11 more | 9 hr |
| Dec 25, 3:41 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, Gulf, Holmes, Jackson and 4 more | 7 hr |
| Dec 25, 10:23 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 9 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Escambia County13
- Santa Rosa County12
- Gulf County12
- Holmes County12
- Okaloosa County12
- Walton County12
- Bay County11
- Washington County11
- Leon County11
- Wakulla County11
- Calhoun County10
- Franklin County10
- Gadsden County10
- Liberty County10
- Jackson County9
- Jefferson County9
- Madison County9
- Lafayette County8
- Taylor County8
- Charlotte County7
- Collier County7
- DeSoto County7
- Glades County7
- Hendry County7
- Highlands County7
- Lee County7
- Dixie County6
- Hardee County6
- Hillsborough County6
- Indian River County6
- Manatee County6
- Martin County6
- Okeechobee County6
- Palm Beach County6
- Pinellas County6
- Polk County6
- Sarasota County6
- Hamilton County5
- Brevard County5
- Citrus County5
27 more counties
- Hernando County5
- Osceola County5
- Pasco County5
- Saint Lucie County5
- Sumter County5
- Baker County4
- Columbia County4
- Suwannee County4
- Alachua County4
- Gilchrist County4
- Broward County4
- Lake County4
- Levy County4
- Miami-Dade County3
- Monroe County3
- Flagler County3
- Marion County3
- Orange County3
- Putnam County3
- Seminole County3
- Volusia County3
- Bradford County2
- Clay County2
- Duval County2
- Nassau County2
- Union County2
- Saint Johns County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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.