Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Watches / 2016
Tornado Watches in Florida, February 2016
6 tornado watches in February 2016. 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 February 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 6
- Busiest day
- February 16, 20162 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 15, 1:02 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, Gulf, Holmes, Jackson and 4 more | 9 hr |
| Feb 15, 8:07 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Jefferson, Lafayette, Leon and 4 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 16, 2:19 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brevard, Charlotte, Collier, DeSoto, Glades, Hardee and 15 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 23, 3:13 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 8 hr |
| Feb 23, 9:08 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Escambia, Franklin, Gadsden and 14 more | 9 hr |
| Feb 24, 3:58 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Citrus, Columbia, Gilchrist and 12 more | 6 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
- Bay County2
- Calhoun County2
- Gulf County2
- Holmes County2
- Jackson County2
- Walton County2
- Washington County2
- Dixie County2
- Franklin County2
- Gadsden County2
- Jefferson County2
- Lafayette County2
- Leon County2
- Liberty County2
- Madison County2
- Taylor County2
- Wakulla County2
- Hillsborough County2
- Manatee County2
- Pasco County2
- Pinellas County2
- Sarasota County2
- Brevard County1
- Charlotte County1
- Collier County1
- DeSoto County1
- Glades County1
- Hardee County1
- Hendry County1
- Highlands County1
- Indian River County1
- Lee County1
- Martin County1
- Okeechobee County1
- Osceola County1
- Palm Beach County1
- Polk 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.