Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Watches / 2023
Tornado Watches in Florida, April 2023
5 tornado watches in April 2023. 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 2023. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- April 3, 20232 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 3, 5:57 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 6 hr |
| Apr 3, 10:51 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Gadsden, Holmes, Jackson, Jefferson, Leon, Madison | 6 hr |
| Apr 13, 6:40 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes and 10 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 29, 3:40 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alachua, Bradford, Brevard, Citrus, Clay, DeSoto and 27 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 30, 5:03 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alachua, Bradford, Brevard, Broward, Charlotte, Citrus and 35 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Okaloosa County2
- Gadsden County2
- Holmes County2
- Jackson County2
- Jefferson County2
- Leon County2
- Madison County2
- Alachua County2
- Bradford County2
- Brevard County2
- Citrus County2
- Clay County2
- DeSoto County2
- Flagler County2
- Hardee County2
- Hernando County2
- Highlands County2
- Hillsborough County2
- Indian River County2
- Lake County2
- Levy County2
- Manatee County2
- Marion County2
- Martin County2
- Okeechobee County2
- Orange County2
- Osceola County2
- Pasco County2
- Pinellas County2
- Polk County2
- Putnam County2
- Saint Johns County2
- Saint Lucie County2
- Sarasota County2
- Seminole County2
- Sumter County2
- Union County2
- Volusia County2
- Escambia County1
- Santa Rosa County1
21 more counties
- Bay County1
- Calhoun County1
- Franklin County1
- Gulf County1
- Liberty County1
- Taylor County1
- Wakulla County1
- Walton County1
- Washington County1
- Dixie County1
- Gilchrist County1
- Broward County1
- Charlotte County1
- Collier County1
- Duval County1
- Glades County1
- Hendry County1
- Lee County1
- Miami-Dade County1
- Monroe County1
- Palm Beach 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.