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Tornado Watches in Florida, 2014
27 tornado watches in 2014. 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 2014. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 27
- Busiest month
- April11 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- April 7, 20144 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 6, 11:28 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brevard, Broward, Charlotte, Collier, DeSoto, Glades and 19 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 16, 5:51 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 7 hr |
| Mar 16, 9:59 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes and 7 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 17, 12:43 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brevard, Charlotte, DeSoto, Hardee, Hernando, Highlands and 17 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 29, 9:43 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alachua, Brevard, Citrus, Flagler, Gilchrist, Hardee and 18 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 6, 7:56 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 8 hr |
| Apr 7, 2:16 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 7 hr |
| Apr 7, 8:46 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 13 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 7, 2:02 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Hamilton, Suwannee | 7 hr |
| Apr 7, 3:33 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Jefferson, Lafayette and 5 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 19, 3:07 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brevard, Broward, Collier, Glades, Hendry, Indian River and 7 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 28, 8:59 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 11 hr |
| Apr 29, 2:56 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes and 4 more | 9 hr |
| Apr 29, 1:46 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 10 hr |
| Apr 29, 10:56 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Gulf, Holmes, Walton, Washington | 4 hr |
| Apr 30, 1:45 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes and 7 more | 8 hr |
| Oct 13, 8:23 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 7 hr |
| Oct 13, 11:44 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gulf, Holmes, Jackson and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Oct 14, 4:27 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 10 more | 8 hr |
| Nov 17, 2:32 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 9 more | 7 hr |
| Nov 17, 6:11 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Columbia, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Hamilton, Jefferson and 7 more | 8 hr |
| Nov 17, 10:57 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Duval, Flagler and 5 more | 4 hr |
| Nov 17, 12:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brevard, Charlotte, Citrus, DeSoto, Hardee, Hernando and 16 more | 6 hr |
| Nov 23, 1:35 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes and 8 more | 6 hr |
| Dec 23, 3:47 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Escambia, Franklin, Gadsden and 14 more | 8 hr |
| Dec 23, 11:55 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 13 more | 9 hr |
| Dec 24, 6:32 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Bay, Calhoun, Columbia, Dixie, Franklin and 13 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Franklin County13
- Gulf County13
- Liberty County13
- Bay County12
- Gadsden County12
- Calhoun County11
- Holmes County11
- Jackson County11
- Leon County11
- Wakulla County11
- Washington County11
- Jefferson County10
- Escambia County9
- Okaloosa County9
- Santa Rosa County9
- Madison County9
- Walton County8
- Taylor County8
- Lafayette County7
- Dixie County6
- Brevard County5
- Osceola County5
- Hardee County4
- Hillsborough County4
- Indian River County4
- Manatee County4
- Orange County4
- Pinellas County4
- Polk County4
- Sarasota County4
- Seminole County4
- Hamilton County4
- Suwannee County4
- Charlotte County3
- DeSoto County3
- Highlands County3
- Lee County3
- Martin County3
- Okeechobee County3
- Saint Lucie County3
27 more counties
- Hernando County3
- Lake County3
- Pasco County3
- Sumter County3
- Volusia County3
- Gilchrist County3
- Broward County2
- Collier County2
- Glades County2
- Hendry County2
- Miami-Dade County2
- Monroe County2
- Palm Beach County2
- Alachua County2
- Citrus County2
- Flagler County2
- Levy County2
- Marion County2
- Putnam County2
- Saint Johns County2
- Columbia County2
- Baker County2
- Bradford County1
- Clay County1
- Duval County1
- Nassau County1
- Union County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.