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Tornado Watches in Florida, 2019

17 tornado watches in 2019. 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 2019. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
17
Busiest month
April7 tornado watches
Busiest day
March 3, 20193 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 19, 10:43 AM ESTTornado WatchSPCEscambia, Santa Rosa7 hr
Jan 19, 4:21 PM ESTTornado WatchSPCBay, Calhoun, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes, Jackson and 4 more6 hr
Mar 3, 12:03 PM ESTTornado WatchSPCEscambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa7 hr
Mar 3, 12:24 PM ESTTornado WatchSPCBay, Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 11 more10 hr
Mar 3, 3:35 PM ESTTornado WatchSPCHamilton, Suwannee7 hr
Apr 14, 3:45 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCBay, Calhoun, Escambia, Franklin, Gulf, Holmes and 6 more7 hr
Apr 14, 10:40 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCBay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Jackson and 7 more6 hr
Apr 18, 4:49 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCEscambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa7 hr
Apr 19, 1:33 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCBay, Calhoun, Dixie, Escambia, Franklin, Gadsden and 14 more9 hr
Apr 19, 10:13 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCAlachua, Baker, Bradford, Citrus, Clay, Columbia and 21 more6 hr
Apr 25, 1:24 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCEscambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa8 hr
Apr 25, 7:31 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes and 7 more5 hr
Jun 6, 10:40 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCEscambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa6 hr
Oct 19, 1:52 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCAlachua, Bradford, Brevard, Charlotte, Citrus, Clay and 23 more12 hr
Dec 17, 7:54 AM ESTTornado WatchSPCBay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes and 10 more7 hr
Dec 17, 11:58 AM ESTTornado WatchSPCBaker, Columbia, Hamilton, Nassau, Suwannee5 hr
Dec 22, 8:45 PM ESTTornado WatchSPCBroward, Collier, Hendry, Miami-Dade, Monroe, Palm Beach8 hr

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

22 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. March 3, 20193tornado watches
  2. January 19, 20192tornado watches
  3. April 14, 20192tornado watches
  4. April 19, 20192tornado watches
  5. April 25, 20192tornado watches
  6. December 17, 20192tornado watches
  7. April 18, 20191tornado watches
  8. June 6, 20191tornado watches
  9. October 19, 20191tornado watches
  10. December 23, 20191tornado watches

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.