Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Watches / 2012
Tornado Watches in Florida, August 2012
5 tornado watches in August 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 August 2012. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- August 28, 20122 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 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Escambia County3
- Okaloosa County3
- Santa Rosa County3
- Broward County2
- Charlotte County2
- Collier County2
- DeSoto County2
- Glades County2
- Hendry County2
- Highlands County2
- Indian River County2
- Lee County2
- Martin County2
- Miami-Dade County2
- Monroe County2
- Okeechobee County2
- Palm Beach County2
- Saint Lucie County2
- Bay County2
- Holmes County2
- Walton County2
- Washington County2
- Brevard County1
- Hardee County1
- Hillsborough County1
- Manatee County1
- Osceola County1
- Pinellas County1
- Polk County1
- Sarasota County1
- Gulf 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.