Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Watches / 2017
Tornado Watches in Florida, May 2017
4 tornado watches in May 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 May 2017. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 4
- Busiest day
- May 23, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 10:10 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Hamilton and 9 more | 8 hr |
| May 23, 2:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Hamilton | 8 hr |
| May 24, 6:56 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bay, Bradford, Calhoun, Citrus and 30 more | 8 hr |
| May 24, 11:03 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Columbia, Duval, Hamilton, Nassau, Suwannee | 10 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Hamilton County4
- Bay County2
- Calhoun County2
- Franklin County2
- Gadsden County2
- Gulf County2
- Jackson County2
- Jefferson County2
- Leon County2
- Liberty County2
- Madison County2
- Wakulla County2
- Baker County2
- Columbia County2
- Duval County2
- Nassau County2
- Suwannee County2
- Holmes County1
- Walton County1
- Washington County1
- Alachua County1
- Bradford County1
- Citrus County1
- Clay County1
- Dixie County1
- Flagler County1
- Gilchrist County1
- Hernando County1
- Lafayette County1
- Lake County1
- Levy County1
- Marion County1
- Pasco County1
- Putnam County1
- Saint Johns County1
- Sumter County1
- Taylor County1
- Union County1
- Volusia 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.