Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Watches / 2018
Tornado Watches in Florida, April 2018
5 tornado watches in April 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 April 2018. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- April 14, 20182 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 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Santa Rosa County3
- Escambia County2
- Okaloosa County2
- Bay County2
- Calhoun County2
- Gulf County2
- Holmes County2
- Jackson County2
- Walton County2
- Washington County2
- Alachua County1
- Baker County1
- Bradford County1
- Citrus County1
- Clay County1
- Columbia County1
- DeSoto County1
- Duval County1
- Flagler County1
- Gilchrist County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hardee County1
- Hernando County1
- Highlands County1
- Hillsborough County1
- Levy County1
- Manatee County1
- Marion County1
- Nassau County1
- Pasco County1
- Pinellas County1
- Polk County1
- Putnam County1
- Saint Johns County1
- Sarasota County1
- Sumter County1
- Suwannee County1
- Union County1
- Franklin County1
- Gadsden County1
1 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.