Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Watches / 2018
Tornado Watches in Florida, December 2018
3 tornado watches in December 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 December 2018. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 3
- Busiest day
- December 1, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
- Bay County2
- Calhoun County2
- Franklin County2
- Gadsden County2
- Gulf County2
- Holmes County2
- Jackson County2
- Leon County2
- Liberty County2
- Okaloosa County2
- Wakulla County2
- Walton County2
- Washington County2
- Escambia County1
- Santa Rosa County1
- Jefferson County1
- Lafayette County1
- Madison County1
- Taylor County1
- Brevard County1
- Charlotte County1
- Collier County1
- DeSoto County1
- Glades County1
- Hardee County1
- Hendry County1
- Highlands County1
- Hillsborough County1
- Indian River County1
- Lake County1
- Lee County1
- Manatee County1
- Okeechobee County1
- Orange County1
- Osceola County1
- Pinellas County1
- Polk County1
- Sarasota County1
- Seminole 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.