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Tornado Watches in Florida, 2018
15 tornado watches in 2018. 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 2018. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 15
- Busiest month
- April5 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- April 14, 20182 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 20, 10:24 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Brevard, Citrus, Clay and 34 more | 9 hr |
| Apr 14, 11:36 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 8 hr |
| Apr 14, 7:55 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 6 hr |
| Apr 14, 11:58 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Gulf, Holmes, Jackson, Walton and 1 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 15, 10:12 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Citrus, Clay, Columbia and 22 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 22, 3:55 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes and 6 more | 8 hr |
| Sep 4, 7:51 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 9 hr |
| Oct 10, 5:46 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gilchrist and 13 more | 11 hr |
| Oct 10, 2:44 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Dixie and 20 more | 11 hr |
| Nov 1, 6:27 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 7 hr |
| Nov 12, 5:34 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 7 hr |
| Nov 12, 12:46 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, Gulf, Holmes, Jackson and 4 more | 7 hr |
| Dec 1, 12:16 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 9 more | 7 hr |
| Dec 1, 6:53 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes and 11 more | 9 hr |
| Dec 20, 7:55 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brevard, Charlotte, Collier, DeSoto, Glades, Hardee and 15 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Santa Rosa County8
- Okaloosa County8
- Escambia County7
- Bay County6
- Calhoun County6
- Gulf County6
- Jackson County6
- Washington County6
- Holmes County5
- Walton County5
- Franklin County5
- Gadsden County5
- Liberty County5
- Gilchrist County4
- Hamilton County4
- Lafayette County4
- Levy County4
- Suwannee County4
- Taylor County4
- Leon County4
- Wakulla County4
- Alachua County3
- Baker County3
- Bradford County3
- Clay County3
- Columbia County3
- DeSoto County3
- Dixie County3
- Duval County3
- Flagler County3
- Hardee County3
- Highlands County3
- Hillsborough County3
- Manatee County3
- Marion County3
- Nassau County3
- Pinellas County3
- Polk County3
- Putnam County3
- Saint Johns County3
22 more counties
- Sarasota County3
- Union County3
- Jefferson County3
- Madison County3
- Brevard County2
- Citrus County2
- Hernando County2
- Indian River County2
- Lake County2
- Okeechobee County2
- Orange County2
- Osceola County2
- Pasco County2
- Seminole County2
- Sumter County2
- Volusia County2
- Saint Lucie County1
- Charlotte County1
- Collier County1
- Glades County1
- Hendry County1
- Lee 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.