Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Watches / 2017
Tornado Watches in Florida, April 2017
5 tornado watches in April 2017. 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 April 2017. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- April 3, 20172 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 8:06 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, Gulf, Holmes, Jackson and 4 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 3, 1:32 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Jefferson and 6 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 5, 7:54 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, Gulf, Holmes, Jackson and 4 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 5, 12:54 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes, Jackson and 3 more | 10 hr |
| Apr 6, 12:15 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Citrus, Clay, Columbia and 22 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Calhoun County4
- Gulf County4
- Bay County3
- Holmes County3
- Jackson County3
- Walton County3
- Washington County3
- Escambia County2
- Okaloosa County2
- Santa Rosa County2
- Dixie County2
- Gadsden County2
- Lafayette County2
- Liberty County2
- Madison County2
- Taylor County2
- Franklin County1
- Jefferson County1
- Leon County1
- Wakulla County1
- Alachua County1
- Baker County1
- Bradford County1
- Citrus County1
- Clay County1
- Columbia County1
- Duval County1
- Flagler County1
- Gilchrist County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hernando County1
- Lake County1
- Levy County1
- Marion County1
- Nassau County1
- Orange County1
- Pasco County1
- Putnam County1
- Saint Johns County1
- Seminole County1
4 more counties
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.