Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Watches / 2023
Tornado Watches in Florida, August 2023
2 tornado watches in August 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 August 2023. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 2
- Busiest day
- August 30, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 29, 8:28 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alachua, Charlotte, Citrus, DeSoto, Dixie, Gilchrist and 20 more | 10 hr |
| Aug 30, 5:38 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Brevard, Citrus, Clay and 27 more | 12 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Alachua County2
- Citrus County2
- Dixie County2
- Gilchrist County2
- Hernando County2
- Hillsborough County2
- Lafayette County2
- Lake County2
- Levy County2
- Marion County2
- Orange County2
- Osceola County2
- Pasco County2
- Pinellas County2
- Polk County2
- Seminole County2
- Sumter County2
- Taylor County2
- Volusia County2
- Charlotte County1
- DeSoto County1
- Hardee County1
- Highlands County1
- Lee County1
- Manatee County1
- Sarasota County1
- Baker County1
- Bradford County1
- Brevard County1
- Clay County1
- Columbia County1
- Duval County1
- Flagler County1
- Hamilton County1
- Madison County1
- Nassau County1
- Putnam County1
- Saint Johns County1
- Suwannee County1
- Union 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.