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Tornado Watches in Florida, January 2017
13 tornado watches in January 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 January 2017. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 13
- Busiest day
- January 22, 20175 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 2, 12:22 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 9 hr |
| Jan 2, 4:46 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes, Jackson and 4 more | 8 hr |
| Jan 2, 10:27 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Hamilton, Jefferson, Madison | 3 hr |
| Jan 7, 12:33 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Citrus, Dixie, Hernando, Hillsborough, Levy, Manatee and 5 more | 4 hr |
| Jan 21, 4:56 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Escambia, Holmes, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Walton | 8 hr |
| Jan 21, 9:04 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Gadsden, Gulf, Jackson, Liberty and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 21, 2:12 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Jefferson and 3 more | 5 hr |
| Jan 21, 7:51 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Escambia, Holmes, Jackson, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Walton and 1 more | 8 hr |
| Jan 22, 3:20 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Columbia, Gadsden, Hamilton, Jackson, Jefferson and 4 more | 9 hr |
| Jan 22, 9:06 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, Franklin, Gulf, Holmes and 6 more | 5 hr |
| Jan 22, 12:47 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bay, Bradford, Calhoun, Clay and 27 more | 7 hr |
| Jan 22, 4:35 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brevard, Citrus, DeSoto, Hardee, Hernando, Highlands and 12 more | 5 hr |
| Jan 22, 9:57 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brevard, Broward, Charlotte, Collier, DeSoto, Glades and 15 more | 8 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Jackson County6
- Bay County5
- Calhoun County5
- Gadsden County5
- Gulf County5
- Holmes County5
- Liberty County5
- Walton County5
- Washington County5
- Escambia County4
- Okaloosa County4
- Santa Rosa County4
- Leon County4
- Jefferson County4
- Hamilton County3
- Madison County3
- Manatee County3
- Sarasota County3
- Franklin County3
- Citrus County2
- Dixie County2
- Hernando County2
- Hillsborough County2
- Levy County2
- Pasco County2
- Pinellas County2
- Sumter County2
- Taylor County2
- Wakulla County2
- Baker County2
- Columbia County2
- Nassau County2
- Suwannee County2
- Brevard County2
- DeSoto County2
- Hardee County2
- Highlands County2
- Osceola County2
- Polk County2
- Alachua County1
27 more counties
- Bradford County1
- Clay County1
- Duval County1
- Flagler County1
- Gilchrist County1
- Lafayette County1
- Marion County1
- Putnam County1
- Saint Johns County1
- Union County1
- Lake County1
- Orange County1
- Seminole County1
- Volusia County1
- Broward County1
- Charlotte County1
- Collier County1
- Glades County1
- Hendry County1
- Indian River County1
- Lee County1
- Martin County1
- Miami-Dade County1
- Monroe County1
- Okeechobee County1
- Palm Beach County1
- Saint Lucie County1
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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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.