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Tornado Watches in Florida, 2025
11 tornado watches in 2025. 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 2025. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 11
- Busiest month
- March5 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- March 16, 20253 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 15, 10:11 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 9 hr |
| Feb 16, 3:42 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes and 9 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 4, 6:41 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 7 hr |
| Mar 5, 12:05 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes and 6 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 15, 8:47 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Escambia, Holmes, Jackson, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa and 2 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 16, 2:18 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Jefferson, Leon and 4 more | 9 hr |
| Mar 16, 8:04 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Citrus, Clay, Columbia and 17 more | 9 hr |
| Apr 6, 11:01 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 9 hr |
| Apr 7, 10:20 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Hamilton, Jefferson, Lafayette and 6 more | 10 hr |
| May 10, 11:22 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes, Jackson and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Oct 26, 6:23 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Escambia | 9 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Escambia County5
- Gadsden County5
- Gulf County5
- Liberty County5
- Okaloosa County4
- Santa Rosa County4
- Bay County4
- Calhoun County4
- Franklin County4
- Holmes County4
- Jackson County4
- Leon County4
- Wakulla County4
- Walton County4
- Washington County4
- Jefferson County3
- Madison County3
- Taylor County3
- Hamilton County2
- Lafayette County2
- Suwannee County2
- Alachua County1
- Baker County1
- Bradford County1
- Citrus County1
- Clay County1
- Columbia County1
- Dixie County1
- Duval County1
- Flagler County1
- Gilchrist County1
- Hernando County1
- Hillsborough County1
- Levy County1
- Marion County1
- Nassau County1
- Pasco County1
- Pinellas County1
- Putnam County1
- Saint Johns County1
1 more counties
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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.