Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Watches / 2012
Tornado Watches in Florida, March 2012
4 tornado watches in March 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 March 2012. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 4
- Busiest day
- March 3, 20123 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 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Escambia County2
- Holmes County2
- Walton County2
- Calhoun County2
- Franklin County2
- Gadsden County2
- Gulf County2
- Hamilton County2
- Jefferson County2
- Leon County2
- Liberty County2
- Madison County2
- Wakulla County2
- Okaloosa County1
- Santa Rosa County1
- Bay County1
- Jackson County1
- Washington County1
- Alachua County1
- Baker County1
- Bradford County1
- Clay County1
- Columbia County1
- Dixie County1
- Duval County1
- Gilchrist County1
- Lafayette County1
- Nassau County1
- Suwannee County1
- Taylor County1
- Union 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.