Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Watches / 2020
Tornado Watches in Florida, March 2020
4 tornado watches in March 2020. 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 March 2020. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 4
- Busiest day
- March 4, 20202 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 4, 2:53 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 8 hr |
| Mar 4, 10:16 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Holmes, Jackson, Walton, Washington | 6 hr |
| Mar 31, 9:51 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes and 7 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 31, 2:22 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Dixie, Duval and 14 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Escambia County2
- Okaloosa County2
- Santa Rosa County2
- Holmes County2
- Jackson County2
- Walton County2
- Washington County2
- Gulf County2
- Leon County2
- Liberty County2
- Bay County1
- Calhoun County1
- Gadsden County1
- Baker County1
- Bradford County1
- Clay County1
- Columbia County1
- Dixie County1
- Duval County1
- Franklin County1
- Hamilton County1
- Jefferson County1
- Lafayette County1
- Madison County1
- Nassau County1
- Saint Johns County1
- Suwannee County1
- Taylor County1
- Union County1
- Wakulla 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.